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PHYSICAL 
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Wonderful Purpose 

OF THE 

Physical Creation 



By FREDERICK L. McGAHAN 

DISCOVERER OF THE TRUE ATOMIC CONDI- 
TION AND INVENTOR OF THE VACUUM 
DRAFT BY-PRODUCTS SMELTING 
SYSTEM. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 

Published by the World's Products Association, 

208 North Fifth Avenue, Suite 203, Franklin 3283. 

1917. 



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Copyright 1917 
By Frederick L. McGahan 



APR 19 1917 
Set A 4 62029 



CONTENTS 

Chap. Subject Page 
I. The New Creation 12 

II. War In Heaven 23 

III. Wonders of God's Plan 35 

IV. Battle Against Satan on Earth 43 

V. Peopling the Earth— Sin 53 

VI. Awfulness of Sin 63 

VII. Portal to Human Conditions 71 

VIII. Re-Creating the Body 79 

IX. Sin and Salvation 94 

X. Significance of Industry 107 

XI. The New Movement 113 

As a Beacon Light 117 

Changes and New Requirements 121 

XII. World Climax of Evil 129 



INTRODUCTORY 



THE HOUR has struck in the march of 
human progress when a very large num- 
ber of men and women should enter upon a 
truer understanding of what they really are 
and what they really are doing. To facilitate 
this expansion and illumination of conscious- 
ness, a short account of the physical crea- 
tion, and an explanation of its great purpose 
are necessary. 

The author in undertaking so large a task, 
although with great brevity, calls to his as- 
sistance a wonderful vision, or revelation, 
which came to him in 1898, and by which he 
was instructed concerning many important 
secrets touching our earth as a storehouse 
of rich bounties; the right methods of com- 
ing into possession of them; and the true 
solution of the paramount problem of indus- 
try, in the attainment of a more harmonious 
and more equitable industrial economy. 

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The strange circumstances leading to and 
surrounding this revelation, and its supply 
of discoveries are not much less awakening 
than the vision of consciousness by which 
the heavens were opened to disclose the awe- 
inspiring processes of the spirit realm, in 
which the decree went forth from the All- 
wise Creator, and the Heavenly Throne of 
Purity, setting into creative action the un- 
fathomable skill of Eternity's Ruler, in a 
work for providing imperishable bodies, or 
ever living personalities, for each of the in- 
numerable spirit powers, or spirit forms, al- 
ready created, and filling the heavenly spaces 
with their glory. 

Not only did this vision uncover to the 
understanding of the author of these pages, 
a clear outline of the true atomic constitution 
of the real earth and the real man — a con- 
stitution of physically invisible, living, know- 
ing, unit forces — but the industrial nature 
of the real body of man, and that of the 
earth, as, also, the wonderful program of 
callings, vocations, pursuits and work-ac- 
tivities, arranged by the Creator for man, 



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making it incumbent upon him or her, to en- 
gage in them, to satisfy the obvious natural 
longing for work, and to supply the body 
with temporal needs. 

Further, this revelation equipped the mind 
of the author with thought processes, which 
made his now somewhat famous invention 
known as the Vacuum Draft By-Products 
smelting system, easy of accomplishment. 
It also brought his mental vision into such 
contact with the true unit constitution of 
the earth, as to raise him to the mastery of 
all chemical processes possible to our planet. 

It is explained, also, on the following 
pages, as to the mutual dependence of the 
wars in heaven and the subsequent wars on 
the earth, and why it is that the latter will 
continue until the last vestige of error and 
evil in the world is destroyed. The kingdom 
of righteousness will rise on the earth in the 
measure that mankind works out the prob- 
lem of destroying error and evil; and this 
progress is soon to become more than ever 
swiftly cumulative, as the true light, now 
dawning through the functions of the new 



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intuitive sense, floods the human conscious- 
ness, to the extent that its vision, called 
understanding, may behold realities. 

It will be seen on the following pages, also, 
that what men and women really are doing, 
of which visible industry is but a faint, un- 
certain reflection, is the work of re-creating 
their Edenic, spiritual bodies, a conscious 
understanding of which was lost by the sin 
of disobedience, and now in the processes of 
reconstruction, by obedience, in the perform- 
ance of good deeds. The body of the restora- 
tion is now slowly being spun and woven. 

It is sought to promulgate and inaugurate 
a new and better human or industrial econ- 
omy, based on educational industry, and 
in order to promote this undertaking, I find 
it necessary, as stated, to acquaint readers 
with the history of the physical creation and 
a true explanation of its great purpose. 

It is a well recognized rule of expression 
— sense expression — that being unable to 
use the language of life — the words of truth 
— as they proceed out of the mouth of the 
Infinite, we can but resort to metaphor, 



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symbol, or allegory. This we are compelled 
to do on the following pages, in so far as our 
story of the physical creation is concerned, 
or otherwise attempt to paint the picture in 
homely linguistics, which could not fail to 
give it a setting of great poverty. But we 
shall not be so hampered when we reach the 
work of describing the manifestations of the 
physical principle, in the organization of the 
earth, and the real, but as yet invisible, body 
of man, because in these efforts, we greatly 
are assisted by natural history science, and 
modern science generally, as well as by the 
sacred scriptures. 

In every part of this effort due consider- 
ation should be given to the necessity for 
great brevity, or condensation. 
Sincerely yours, 
FREDERICK L. McGAHAN 
Chicago, HI. 

March, 1917 



WONDERFUL PURPOSE 

OF THE 

PHYSICAL CREATION 

CHAPTER I. 
THE NEW CREATION 

AN UNDERSTANDING of the physical 
creation is essential to a knowledge of 
the human state. The term human life, so 
often used is a misnomer. Accurately speak- 
ing, there is no such fact as human life. Life 
is a unit and universal, and never is really 
divided. When all the error now afflicting 
the state, or condition, which we call human 
life is dissolved, it no longer will be human, 
but real, present human understanding to 
the contrary notwithstanding. 

Speaking figuratively, in part, we are 
authorized to embrace the concept that, far 
back in the rolling ages of eternity, when the 
heavenly spaces of immensity were peopled 

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only by spirit powers — pure spirit forms, 
without bodies, such as we now perceive — 
voices from the great white throne of purity 
and power — the voices of the angel trumpet- 
ers—summoned the heavenly hosts to gather 
under archangel leadership, to hear and 
study a new decree of the Most High. Thus 
in metaphor, we may say, that a new creation 
was proclaimed. 

The Infinite One had decreed that as many 
millions of the heavenly hosts as should 
choose to accept them, and to pass the ordeal 
requisite for the wonderful attainment, 
should be provided with spiritual, ever living 
bodies, composed of the shining light of good 
deeds. 

The transporting news rang out through 
the spaces of eternity, and thrilled the spirit 
forms of God's angel-children with surpas- 
sing expectation. The great enterprise and 
its sublime purpose at once became the ob- 
jects of eager inquiry. All the angels desired 
to look into the heavenly plan. There was 
gladsome commotion in the spirit realms, as 
archangels and angels gathered about the 



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creative throne of power and glory, to be in- 
structed in the mighty scheme. 

It was made known that a vast series of 
the cycles, or spaces of great immensity had 
been set aside for the creation of a wonder- 
ful system of worlds, to be called the physical 
universe. This universe was to contain a 
countless number of fixed stars, or suns, 
with planetary bodies connected with each, 
and a mighty host of other celestial bodies, 
in mutual dependence with them. These 
physical bodies were to pass through many 
chemical processes and conditions, until a 
perfect state of each should be realized. They 
were to be equipped with physical light, and 
temperatures, in a marvelous system of dis- 
tribution, and chemical actions, and with all 
needful bounties and uses for sustaining life, 
and its many forms, and its different states. 

It was further decreed that personal 
bodies should rise from the physical stuff of 
which the planets were made, and that each 
one of the heavenly, or angel, spirit forms, 
that should choose to do so, might go and 
dwell in one of these bodies, in a perfect state 



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of everlasting life, for both body and spirit; 
that each planet, including our earth, should 
be made a storehouse of inexhaustible riches, 
in an abundance for each one, and enough 
forevermore, on an expanding scale, suffi- 
cient to meet all successively new require- 
ments of eternal progress. 

Thus, the proposed new physical universe, 
and the new bodies which these spirit in- 
telligences should wear, were described at 
great length, and the angel hosts listened 
and appropriated the knowledge imparted, 
with rapturous interest. Then, there went 
forth from the great white throne, a call to 
the angelic hosts to decide whether or not 
they would elect to go to any one of these 
planetary bodies they might choose, and take 
up their abode in their new bodies, and there- 
by enter upon a more extensive life of use- 
fulness. 

It is to be noted here that each one of 
these spirit children of the Supreme Creator, 
already possessed the power of choosing in 
all such matters, to do or not to do, the will 
of their Eternal Father. Each also pos- 



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sessed the knowledge that disobedience 
would be overtaken by its own penalty. 

Following this call for decision on the part 
of the angelic hosts there was great discus- 
sion, and as conclusions were reached, the 
deciding angels arranged themselves on the 
right, or on the left of the throne, those con- 
senting on the right, and those dissenting, 
on the left. Those on the left were found 
to be under the leadership, and acting under 
the advice of the great arch-angel, after- 
wards called, Lucifer. Those on the right 
were under the guidance of the great arch- 
angel, Michael. 

The former stood forth and announced the 
decision of himself and his followers, first. 
He said: "Father, we are content with our 
present state. We do not wish to go and 
dwell in physical bodies on any one of these 
far away planets. We, on the left of the 
throne refuse to go." 

Then, the archangel, Michael, stood forth, 
and said: "Father, we on the right of the 
throne, know that all Thy statutes and de- 
crees are righteous, and for our good. We 



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love Thee, and we will go in fond obedience 
to Thy holy will." 



It is expedient to call attention here to a 
wonderful fact — to a truth of the widest pos- 
sible significance. It is that, in the last anal- 
ysis, God is the only teacher, the one and only 
source of knowledge, for all his creatures, 
for all the spirit inhabitants of the eternal 
state, called heaven, and for all those in bodi- 
ly states, who dwell on planetary bodies. 
In the great event mentioned in this chapter, 
the Supreme Creator added to the heavenly 
curriculum, by spirit processes, a study of 
physical life, and a practice in its methods. 
These included the appropriation of a knowl- 
edge of the wonderful resources of the phys- 
ical state. It is sought here to impress the 
truth that the work of heavenly teaching, 
thus begun, still is going forward in heaven 
and on the earth, and on all the inhabited 
planets of the great physical universe; and 
that it will continue in progress, under the 
immediate direction of the same all-wise 



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teacher, until all ignorance — error — is elim- 
inated from every center, comer, or hiding 
place of this God-made physical universe, 
and until knowledge, truth and righteousness 
will reign, "wher'er the sun doth its success- 
ive journeys run." 

But this knowledge, this truth and this 
righteousness cannot, under the divine plan, 
be forced upon any one in heaven, or on the 
earth. Each one of God's children must voli- 
tively choose to accept it, or suffer in the af- 
fliction of error, until such acceptance is 
heartily and fully made. There is no time in 
eternity, where God, in consciousness, re- 
sides, and those who seek a convenient time 
to inaugurate this beginning will find that 
only the eternal present — the everlasting 
now — provides this golden opportunity. 



There are three great fundamental items 
of knowledge set forth in the sacred scrip- 
tures, which, in a study of the physical uni- 
verse and man should be brought into the 
arena of the attention of consciousness at 
this threshold. The true significance of 



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these will grow into the vision of our under- 
standing as we proceed. They follow: 

1. "The worlds were framed by the 
word of God, so that things which are 
seen were not made of things which do 
appear." — Heb. 11:3. 

2. "There are also celestial bodies, and 
bodies terrestrial." — 1 Cor. 15:40. "It is 
sown a natural body ; it is raised a spiritual 
body. There is a natural body and there 
is a spiritual body." — 1 Cor. 15 :44. 

3. "For the elect's sake those days 
shall be shortened."— Matt. 24:22. "While 
I was with them in the world I kept them 
in Thy name; those that thou gavest me 
I have kept, and none of them is lost, but 
the son of perdition." — John 17:12. 

A short key of explanation of the forego- 
ing, which, also, discloses the great purpose 
of this little volume, here follows : 

1. The great goal of the physical crea- 
tion is the creation of celestial or spiritual 
(not spirit) bodies, for God's spirit-chil- 
dren, for the angelic hosts which, away 
back in eternity, were summoned before 



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the creative throne of heaven to be in- 
structed concerning the plan and purpose 
of this creation. 

2. The elect are those of the spirit- 
multitude, who, having been instructed as 
to this plan and purpose, elected or decided 
— obediently chose — of their own volition, 
to co-operate with this plan and purpose, 
by going, or coming to this earth to dwell 
in physical bodies. This going or coming 
is still in progress, and will continue until, 
in turn, the faithful all have come. Not 
one of these will be finally lost. As will be 
seen, Satan is not able to pluck them out 
of the hands of him who said: "Those 
that Thou gavest me I have kept and none 
of them is lost." 

3. The terrestrial body is the, so-called, 
human body, which we behold and see 
with the eyes. It is called material, or 
mortal. It is subject to death. It also is 
subject to resurrection, the resurrection 
of the understanding, by which the new 
body, the celestial or spiritual body, the 
warp and woof of which are now in the 



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spinning and weaving, by true value deeds 
of which it is becoming the embodiment — ■ 
will be revealed. In this first resurrection 
this death is vanquished. 

4. The wonderful mental and physical 
institution commonly called, industry, in 
respect to all its useful and wholesome 
callings, professions and pursuits, when 
carried on in right purposes is, under the 
ever overruling power and wisdom of 
God, working out this grand problem of 
the as yet physically unseen spiritual 
body of man. 

5. The constitution of our earth, which 
is in the nature of a most wonderful atom- 
ic system of natural forces and their mo- 
tions, which we sentiently perceive as 
gases, liquids and solids, provides for man- 
kind the abundant source and the full sup- 
ply of all bounties and uses needed for 
happy planetary life. This supply flows 
to the race by means of its ever rising in- 
dustry and skill. Thus it is seen, that the 
earth is not composed of the "things 



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which do appear" to misdirected sense, but 
of more precious stuff. 

These scant data given in this place are 
intended as guides to thought, rather than 
as complete explanations. Extended elabora- 
tions will develop as we proceed. 



CHAPTER II. 
WAR IN HEAVEN 

THE MILTONIAN allegory of "Paradise 
Lost and Regained," although at no time 
widely held to have been divinely inspired, 
and although generally out of use in our 
modern age, nevertheless symbolizes a great 
volume of relative truth. Doubtless there 
are many strokes from the brush of truth 
to be seen in that wonderful picture. I am 
not disposed to undertake the doubtful task 
of setting, or fitting metaphorical robes to 
the alleged war in heaven, but the sacred 
scriptures provide many foundations for 
those of high spiritual intuition, who may 
venture upon this work. 

However, I am impelled by a command, 
which I have neither the power nor the de- 
sire to resist, to lay before the reader an ac- 
count of a vision, or revelation which took 
possession of me when I lay physically help- 

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less for months, afflicted as the diagnosed 
result of a terrible accident, or a designed 
attempt of merciless enemies to remove 
me from this stage of action. While 
nothing will be said concerning these 
circumstances, on later pages, it is aimed 
here to deal only with this revela- 
tion and its purport, in the same terms in 
which it was interpreted to me at the time. 
These terms are crude and broken, when 
compared with modern diction, but I have 
decided to allow them to stand precisely as 
they were, by methods of dictation, origin- 
ally transcribed. 

As this vision reaches to both spiritual 
and physical conditions, revealing and solv- 
ing the practical problems of our physical 
world and man, I am able to revise the ori- 
ginal transcription of the latter to conform 
to modern terminology. But as to the first, 
as stated, the original partly figurative 
terms are allowed to stand. 



The following to the end of this chapter 
is from the original transcription: 



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We go back many millions of ages prior 
to present conditions on the earth, and prior 
to the advent of the beautiful Garden of 
Eden. Indeed, the glory of this most beauti- 
ful garden was planned in high heaven mil- 
lions and millions of centuries ago. History 
tells us that in the beginning the God of na- 
ture created the heavens and the earth. 
Here is plain proof that God always existed. 
The earth was without form and darkness 
was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit 
of God moved upon the face of the waters. 
This is proof not only of spirit conditions 
and powers, but absolute proof of the vapors 
of the "Upper Deep" holding the seas and 
oceans of water that lay in their mighty ba- 
sins today ; and of the reflections of the planet 
Mars that are reported by astronomers of 
that planet's oceans and canals, that they 
contained all the elements necessary to the 
formation of our earth. Hence, to hold out 
the true conditions of life, it was written 
that Adam was formed of the dust of the 
ground, and that God breathed into his nos- 



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trils the breath of life, and man became a 
living soul. 

Man thus became a positive and a negative 
being, as shown in the scriptures, where it is 
written that God caused a deep sleep to fall 
upon Adam ; and that He took one of his ribs 
and made a woman, and Adam cried out: 
"This is now bone of my bone and flesh of 
my flesh"; because she was taken out of 
man. Herein was set up the positive and 
negative, or the male and female conditions 
of the flesh of the creation. 

Now, I am not attempting to set up a new 
doctrine; nor am I making these statements 
for argument's sake; and trust, therefore, 
that none will take any exceptions to what 
I say, owing to their belief in creed or doc- 
trine. But read, or listen carefully, because 
I am going to lead you into an entirely new 
land, and show you new things and new 
states, from a perfect understanding of the 
elements of which we all are created — states 
and conditions from which we move and per- 
form our daily tasks in our march measuring 
time through the spaces, or eternities. 



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Look! We now are supposed to be travel- 
ing backwards to millions and millions of 
years ago. The King Creator, the God of 
our nature, sat upon a great white throne of 
purity. He was the great beginning and the 
ending of not only our nature, but of all liv- 
ing, for, in fact there is nothing that exists 
but that contains life, in the fullest sense, 
not even our bodies, or the withered plant 
that falls by the wayside. It is the same 
with us when we are laid to rest, and the 
gentle breath has left this body. The spirit 
or soul, in what we call death, separates from 
the body, and the spirit returns, as it is writ- 
ten, to the God who gave it, not back into 
complete rest, but into practice. As it is 
written, when the Son of Man was crucified, 
he said to one of the thieves who was cruci- 
fied with him, "Today thou shalt be with me 
in paradise," — another stopping place in the 
journey of eternity. 

Look upon the right and upon the left of 
this great white throne of glory, in all its 
purity and holiness. There sat the right 
and left hand supporters of this great throne 



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of glory. Jesus, the first-born of the throne 
was seated on the right, and he controlled all 
the immensity of space-life upon the right 
hand of the King of Glory, the mighty God 
of Nature; and he was ruler of all upon the 
right of the throne. Seated upon the left 
of the throne was Lucifer, also mighty in the 
understanding of the throne, and second- 
born unto that bright and lovely home of 
purity, and in charge of all subjects upon the 
left of the throne of purity. And all other 
spirit powers that existed upon either side 
of the throne were subject to and were guid- 
ed by Jesus upon the right, and by Lucifer 
upon the left. 

Malichi was assistant to Lucifer, and 
Michael was assistant to Jesus, both being 
armor bearers and archangel trumpet sound- 
ers. The Holy Ghost was the mother of all 
spirit life, and sat at the foot of the throne, 
so that God the Father could look down upon 
her, from whence they together, through love 
and purity, guided all by their touch, which 
extended throughout the great immensity 



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of space from and to the four quarters 
thereof. 

As the stars now shine through the heav- 
ens, so at this time had spirits been created 
by God the Father, and the Holy Ghost, the 
Mother, until the vast spaces of immensity 
were filled with bright shining spirit powers, 
all in the likeness of the Father and the 
Mother. They were born into the throne as 
fixed spirits, with everlasting powers, as part 
of the throne, and thus they could not be 
destroyed, but must remain everlasting fix- 
tures with like powers, with God the Father, 
and the Holy Ghost, the Mother, who had 
created them. 

So when the immensity of eternal space 
was filled, God the Father consulted the eter- 
nal Mother, and they decided to call into ex- 
istence earthly foot-stools, or stopping 
places, thus filling immensity, at certain 
fixed places, with planets of earthy materials 
like unto our own earth, with fixed laws and 
conditions governing them. 

The command as to the conditions of this 
planet — the earth — was as follows: The 



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spirit powers, both male and female, were to 
come here and dwell for three-score-years- 
and-ten, in earthly tabernacles made of the 
"dust of the earth/' They were to have com- 
plete dominion over the earth and all that 
dwell therein, for this space of time, namely, 
three-score-years-and-ten. The great sun 
planet was to give light, heat and growth, by 
day, and the great moon planet was to give 
us growth, and assist in giving us light, in 
seasons, by night; and all other planets in 
turn were to come into existence and play 
their parts throughout the onward march 
through the creative eternities. 

But listen! The law had now become a 
fixed, changeless law, by the decree of the 
Father; and in order to carry it into effect, 
the throne addressed Jesus and Lucifer, say- 
ing to them to command their supports to 
sound their trumpets, and to command, and 
gather all spirit-powers subjects together 
from the uttermost parts of immensity, as 
he, the Father was about to call into exist- 
ence these earth bodies. So the trumpets 
were sounded, and all spirit powers were as- 



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sembled round this great throne of purity in 
which there existed not a single reason for 
an impure thought up to this time, much 
less such a fact as a sin. 

As stated, the throne was surrounded and 
permeated with purity, and was so pure that 
the great Godhead had never felt other than 
that creation should proceed through the 
spaces of eternity in perfection, peace and 
harmony, obedient to the Father's command. 
The spirits at the sound of the trumpets, 
like wireless telegraphy, were soon assem- 
bled around the throne, singing praises to 
God the Father and Mother, and thus with 
their voices, making the heavenly spaces 
ring with great joy. A gladsome spirit pre- 
vailed, for all seemingly were wont to give 
praise. 

But apparently, all the while, Lucifer, in 
his wonderful brightness had been worked 
into a rebellious state; and at the close of 
the first songs of praise, he arose and stood 
before the great throne. He said : "Father, 
we upon the left hand have decided that this 
state of existence is entirely satisfactory to 



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us, and, therefore, we do not wish to go down 
to earth, and lower ourselves to the position 
of becoming a little lower than angels, or 
perfect state of our existence here. We pre- 
fer to remain just as we are, rather than go 
to the earth and dwell in earthly tabernacles, 
although we are to be given complete do- 
minion over this new creation during the per- 
iod of "three-score-years-and-ten." 

But Jesus here stepped forward and, re- 
plying, said: "Father, in that thou hast 
promulgated the command and hast called 
forth this new existence, we upon the right 
hancT realize that this is now a fixed, change- 
less condition, and, therefore, must stand 
forever. We, on the right, will go and dwell 
in earthly tabernacles, as fast as they are 
created or prepared for us." 

But now, behold! All those upon the left 
hand are now seemingly in deep commotion. 
They are gathering in groups, and, apparent- 
ly, with one accord, they defy the throne. 
Here, then, the first sin was committed, and 
it was promulgated in high heaven, before 



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the throne of purity; and this first sin was 
disobedience to the throne. 

Lucifer now stepped before the throne 
and said: "Father, we will not go!" So this 
great throne, for the first time, was con- 
fronted with a new condition, namely, impur- 
ity within purity, or disobedience and sin, 
rising from the thoughts and actions of 
those on the left, who espoused the wrong 
cause of Lucifer. 

And just as a right-minded earthly father, 
today, seeks to punish his disobedient chil- 
dren, so the Heavenly Father proceeded to 
correct his erring spirit-children. These 
children, remembering that they were as 
gods, themselves, prepared to rebel against 
the throne, and as it is written in the seventh 
verse of the twelfth chapter of Revelations: 
"And there was war in Heaven ; Michael and 
his angels fought against the dragon; 
and the dragon fought and his angels," (See, 
also, verses 8 and 9), "and prevailed not; 
neither was there place found any more in 
heaven." 

And the great dragon, with his evil host, 



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was cast out of heaven — the heavenly state 
— and since that event he is called the old 
serpent, the devil, or satan, the personal em- 
bodiment of sin. Then began the great work 
of peopling the earth by the emigration 
from heaven of the obedient spirit powers, 
each in its turn, as earthly bodies were pre- 
pared for them. 

But Lucifer and his host, all in evil spirit 
forms, came to earth, also, and the war of 
the spiritual rebellion was transferred from 
heaven to earth, where it still prevails. 



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CHAPTER III. 
WONDERS OF GOD'S PLAN 

(From Original Transcript) 

OW, GOD knew that Satan would con- 
tinue the war, even on the earth, so it 
was necessary to provide some means to pro- 
tect those who had consented to go to earth 
and dwell in earthly tabernacles, since with Sa- 
tan and his angels set at liberty on the earth, 
they would seek most diligently to overthrow 
the works of the father, by keeping up a war 
on the spirits that had taken up their abode 
here in the flesh. Hence, it followed that 
Michael, the seventh spirit-power of the 
throne, who marshalled the good spirits on 
the right of the throne, victoriously against 
Lucifer and his evil host was given charge 
of the earth-war, on the side of purity, which 
Satan, in opposition, had planned to carry 
forward on the earth. 
This provision was made until the redemp- 

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tion of the earth could be arranged for, and 
to cover the period until the good spirits that 
had agreed to come to the earth should all 
have had an opportunity to come and dwell 
here in fleshy tabernacles. It is known that 
not until that time will the second resurrec- 
tion take place, and the second coming of 
the Christ be realized. 

It therefore is plainly evident that the first 
sin was disobedience, and was committed in 
high heaven, by and under the rebellious 
leadership of Lucifer, who stood next to the 
great heavenly throne. It is written that 
Michael and the dragon fought, and behold 
Lucifer, the dragon, and all they upon the 
left hand of the heavenly throne were cast 
out of heaven into outer-darkness. This is 
direct proof of a heavenly division. It is fur- 
ther written : "And I beheld Satan as light- 
ning cast out of heaven." Yea, and the 
lightnings flashed and the thunder sent forth 
their pealing sounds, for there was war in 
heaven, even in that heaven of purity. For 
this great beginning of a great creation 
spread from the very center of the throne 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 37 

unto its uttermost parts. And here, for the 
first time was also established a great gulf 
between eternity and the creation. 

Now we can correctly see through the veil 
and understand the declaration, "I am Alpha 
and Omega, the beginning and the end" ; but 
this does not in any way refer to, or have a 
bearing on, the great immensity of eternity, 
without beginning and without ending, in 
which we see the mighty figure of God Him- 
self in his entirety, without beginning and 
without end, eternally in the heavens. 

Behold, the likeness of God is seen every- 
where. When we look upon the sun shining 
in all its glory, and the moon with its gentle 
light, by night, and behold the twinkling 
stars, we see God. Then, again, turning to 
the sun's rays, and the gentle dew-drop, and 
view all the splendor of plant life, we cannot 
but cry out within ourselves, "0, Mighty 
God of all nature, who made the heavens and 
the earth, and all that in them are." Turn 
which way we will, God's countenance ever is 
with us in plain view ; and from this we can- 
not fail to know that all things are life, and 



38 WONDERFUL PURPOSE OF 

that all life is a part of God. Hence, we can 
understand the saying that even the hairs 
of our head are all numbered; and that even 
the sparrow cannot fall except with the 
knowledge and presence of God. 

Then, again, we behold God in his majesty, 
within the waters of the mighty ocean, and 
in the myriad forms of life swimming within 
them. Then, when we look out through the 
atmosphere of space surrounding us and be- 
hold the wonders of the winged fowls, or 
birds, and note their beautiful plumage, we 
cannot resist from exclaiming as before: "0, 
Thou Mighty God, who made everything that 
is good for man, and has placed him but little 
lower than the angels, that he might satisfy 
the desire expressed by the great throne be- 
fore Lucifer rebelled!" 

We behold this mighty God again in the 
center of the great eternity, with all his love 
and power, bringing into existence other 
spirit-powers — indestructible spirit-powers — 
like unto himself, with power everlasting, 
which cannot be destroyed, because they are 
a part of himself, as we can see by the illus- 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 39 

tration, "bone of my bone and flesh of my 
flesh." 

We see the most sacred likeness of God in 
the fact that man shall leave his father and 
mother and cleave unto his wife. So it is 
written. "Thou shalt have no other God be- 
fore me, for I am a jealous God, visiting the 
iniquity of the fathers from the fourth even 
unto the tenth generation." But, in a won- 
derful way it is said that all is but as yester- 
day unto him, as to all suffering and dying, 
during the three-score-years-and-ten, as the 
allotted period we are to stay here on this 
earth, in the visible body is not even as one 
step in the march through eternity. 

Therefore, our earth-life and its sufferings, 
when compared with the joys of eternity, is 
not even as one day ; and with all the sorrows 
and tribulations, the sufferings and the 
rough places encountered in this life, by the 
faithful and the true, who are fighting the 
battles of God and truth as against Lucifer 
and his fallen angels are with God and our 
departed friends, and all those who have 
agreed to come here and dwell, and those who 



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have, as yet, not been permitted, or that 
have not as yet reached their turn ; for they 
look down upon us in this moment of life, 
as we look upon some great panorama, or 
painting of a struggle with some person, or 
nation for supremacy in worldly contests, or 
conflicts. It does not worry loved ones, who 
have gone before, and who see us in our 
struggles, because, after passing the shadow 
of death, as it is termed, into that state, as it 
is written, all will have become God-like. 

See the blessed Jesus standing before that 
throne, and all those upon the right hand of 
that throne of glory! This was millions of 
years ago when all was happiness and joy in 
heaven; and they all with one accord, even 
though knowing that Satan was abroad in 
tEe land, and would be going up and down 
continuously, seeking whom he might de- 
vour, and thus be carrying on the war on 
earth that was started centuries and ages 
ago in heaven; — even with this knowledge, 
they agreed to come to earth at God's com- 
mand, as they have come, and are still com- 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 41 

ing, to carry out the great enterprise of 
creation. 

Why is this great command still in process 
of being obeyed? Because Jesus said to the 
Father that as sin had entered into life, he, 
at a time appointed by the Father would 
come to earth, without the instrumentality 
of natural process, and into the flesh, 
through the immaculate conception of the 
Mother woman. And now we have this won- 
derful story of the first coming of Christ in 
the flesh. 

The decrees concerning the creation of the 
earth and man had become the fixed law of 
high heaven, and, therefore, could not be 
changed. Then the trumpets were sounded 
a second time, and immediately there was a 
wonderful gathering together of heavenly 
hosts to the extent that all the heavenly 
spirits from all the great four quarters of the 
heavenly spaces were now assembled round 
the great white throne of purity, singing 
Glory to God and praising him for all con- 
ditions in which they were to have and share. 
All earth temples or bodies were to be formed 



42 WONDERFUL PURPOSE OF 

by God, Himself, and as formed, a spirit 
power was to descend and take possession of 
each in turn. 

Hence it is written that Adam, the first 
man, was made of the dust of the earth and 
placed in a beautiful garden called Eden. 
God, Himself, looked upon this form, or man, 
and pronounced it good. It was pure and 
clean and considered a fit dwelling place for 
a spirit power. The Creator decided that it 
would not be good to awaken the man into 
conscious life, in loneliness, and so he created 
woman, as is explained on another page. In 
this way the male and female conditions of 
man became established, so that later it 
would become known as to the true signifi- 
cance of the man and the woman. That 
knowledge is being disseminated in our day. 



CHAPTER IV. 
BATTLE AGAINST SATAN ON EARTH 

(Original Transcription) 

BUT GIVE attention! The rebellion of 
Lucifer created a division in heaven. A 
war in heaven followed. Lucifer and his host 
on the left of the throne were cast out. 
Jesus and the obedient host on the right of 
the throne assumed the task of the creation 
which Lucifer refused, and the Father ac- 
cepted the service of the Only Son, and that 
of the great archangel, Michael, and in due 
course the war against sin was transferred 
to the earth. Lucifer and his followers had 
finally decided that they did not wish to be- 
come, and would not become, a part of the 
new creation. They decided to remain in the 
spirit state. 

Lucifer declared that his brother and sis- 
ter spirits on the right of the throne, if they 
desired, might take up their abode in the 

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earthly tabernacles and reign therein su- 
preme, taking their own way, and living as 
they pleased, setting up earth kingdoms, and 
ruling themselves by any system of laws they 
might see fit to promulgate, but as for them, 
they were decided to remain in their then 
present state. 

Thus a division took place in heaven, and 
the rebellious hosts arrayed themselves 
under the leadership of Lucifer. It is writ- 
ten that no power existed in heaven that 
could prevent this disobedience. Indeed, we 
find Lucifer had the power to dictate to the 
throne what his mission should be, although 
He knew that the commandment had been 
signed and sealed, as it were, on the heavenly 
throne. 

The great work of the creation of Earth 
and Man went forward under the leadership 
of Jesus, and the great archangel, Michael, 
and thus the earth was finished, and earthly 
tabernacles were formed for the in-dwelling 
of the obedient spirits. As already noted, 
the first pair were placed in the beautiful 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 45 

Garden of Eden. There this pair was tempt- 
ed by Satan and fell victims to sin. 

Thus the war begun in heaven was trans- 
ferred to the earth, and at the proper 
time, appointed by the Father, Jesus 
came to earth taking on a fleshy body, 
and laid the foundation for rescuing from 
the power of Satan all the spirits that had 
come to earth to dwell, and all of those that 
were yet to come. 



How did we become possessed of our Bible ? 
How do we know that it is the Word of God ? 
How do we know from whence we really ori- 
ginated, or whence we go, when we cease to 
live on this planet ? And then, again, if God, 
our Creator, was so powerful and wise, and 
so merciful, and we are his children, or 
creatures, why all this sin and suffering on 
this earth? 

I was taught by my good Sabbath School 
teacher that God knew everything, even be- 
fore he called this great world into existence. 
If so, why were the ten commandments writ- 
ten? Now, right here let us look at a few 



46 WONDERFUL PURPOSE OF 

human illustrations. I met at one time quite 
a learned man, and during our conversation 
we drifted into the question of right and 
wrong, and my friend insisted that there was 
no wrong; that all was truly good, and just 
as God intended that it should be; and that 
it was only the difference of opinion or view- 
point, in the way, when he and I looked at 
things, respectively, as we saw them to exist. 

I then said to him: "In accordance with 
your views our lawmakers and rulers who 
license the dram shop to sell liquor, or rum, 
to your own boy, until he reaches a state in 
which he has no control of his faculties, and 
then stabs or shoots down, while in that 
state, a comrade, you would call these ter- 
rible things good. The victim may be your 
only son, and you may love him above all 
things on earth!" 

Now, again to more perfectly get this pic- 
ture before our minds, so that you will be 
able, not only to see the great power of right 
and wrong, and the awfulness of wrong, and 
that it is our duty to exercise body and mind 
to blot it from our life, let me go on. 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 47 

Now, the son is mine. My neighbor has a 
beautifuT daughter ; and my son and this 
daughter have been raised together; and in 
all the social gatherings and functions of the 
neighborhood, we become practically as one 
family. We have our social entertainments 
and wine is served. We sit there and look on 
as these two ideal young people sip wine to- 
gether. You say, there surely is no wrong in 
this. See how they are enjoying themselves, 
thoughtless of the real dangers. We console 
ourselves, in part, from the fact that they 
are but children, and that, perhaps, they 
may, in time, become as one, become man and 
wife — for they already are innocent lovers. 

Alas ! Before we are aware of it they both 
have become tipplers, slaves to the awful 
wine cup. They have fallen by the wayside. 
Thus, thoughts and hopes of great happiness 
are shattered, and two homes are doomed to 
endure lasting sadness and sorrow, Home 
ties and friendships are broken ! 0, friends, 
look at the picture ! Do you think this great 
and merciful God ever intended such misery 



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and suffering should come to these two 
families ? 

Now, I am going to give you a few illus- 
trations on the other side, and I wish you to 
watch very closely, as our peopled earth is 
in a terrible state of wrong, today. We must 
get ready and fight these conditions to des- 
truction, else, as a flood will come down the 
vengeance of Almighty God, and this beauti- 
ful world of ours will be wiped out with fire. 

As it is written, if it were possible, Satan 
would deceive the very elect, but we are to 
thank God that such is not possible. And 
now the great problem of why it comes to 
pass that we have all this sin and suffering 
in this beautiful world confronts us. Behold, 
in his likeness he made man, male and fe- 
male, and commanded them to go forth and 
beautify and replenish the earth. 

Now Satan is waging his war on earth, and 
vast numbers of God's children are being de- 
ceived by him. It is not forgotten that 
Jesus, in addressing the Father before the 
throne in high heaven when Lucifer rebelled, 
that he said: 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 49 

"Father, in that sin has now entered our 
midst, at a time appointed by Thee, I will 
go to earth without taking up the natural 
conditions, and become man through the im- 
maculate conception, and an example for all 
thy children to live by, and I will fight Satan 
in the flesh, as he is compelled to enter the 
flesh, by his evil spirit, to fight us ; and I will 
show and teach thy children in the flesh how 
they can overcome Satan and his fallen angels 
and live righteous lives, and I will show them 
how they can keep their earthly tabernacles 
garnished, pure and clean ; and that it is pos- 
sible to resist all manner of temptations ; and 
I will assist them to that end. Hence, Satan 
will seek to destroy me by getting all the fol- 
lowers he has won in the earth-life to con- 
demn me to death." 

So the Father said: "My Son, let it be so, 
and all will be well with thee." At this time 
there was great rejoicing among the obedient 
spirits on the right of the throne, as Jesus 
was then chosen leader of the mighty battles 
that should be fought on the earth through- 
out all time. 



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The story of this awful drama, and the 
crucifixion, were repeated time and again be- 
fore the throne of heaven, of the suffering 
upon the cross ; and to these, God, the Father 
said that the great indelible impression that 
this would leave on the minds of all would ul- 
timately lead them back, in love and pity, to 
remember that state of purity in which they 
all existed before yielding to Satan's tempta- 
tion; but at the journey's end at three-score- 
years-and-ten, they would all go with Jesus 
where they would remain for a time and half 
a time in Paradise, waiting for the great re- 
surrection morning to appear, when they 
would all be gathered together again before 
God and his throne, back into that everlast- 
ing home of love and purity, with Jesus as 
their King. 

The battles of life against sin having been 
fought and won, and the command heard to 
enter "with me" into Paradise, prepared be- 
fore the foundation of the world for Christ 
and his angels, the restoration will be com- 
plete. 

Because Lucifer sinned in heaven and 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 51 

fought against the throne, it was necessary 
for the planning of the beautiful Garden of 
Eden in which the first man and woman were 
to appear. This Garden was planted and ar- 
ranged by God, himself ; and everything good 
was placed in it, as also that which was best 
suited to man, to satisfy him. In this illus- 
tration there was the tree of life and the tree 
of the knowledge of good and evil, so that 
the man and the woman should have it up- 
permost in their minds always, that they 
sliould obey and keep on their guard lest the 
evil one should come in and deceive them; 
and so that if they, clothed in their own free 
will, should fall, they would have a warning 
not to destroy themselves, and attempt there- 
by to step back again into the spirit state, 
lest in their weakened condition they would 
be lost. So when Eve listened to the beast, 
and Adam listened to Eve, and they both 
sinned as did Lucifer in high heaven, then 
the angel came and led them from that beau- 
tiful garden, and, henceforth, they were com- 
pelled to plant their own garden, and wait 
for the harvest until plants grew by the toil 



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of their own hands. Thus, the trials and 
tribulations of this life were ushered in be- 
cause of disobedience. 

God had told Adam and Eve before they 
left heaven all about their dangers ; and they 
had been in heaven all through the rebellion of 
Lucifer; and they knew that he and his an- 
gels had been cast into outer space, and that 
for disobedience. They knew that Satan was 
at liberty through his mighty powers to 
tempt them, and then to enter into them, if 
the spirit that had taken possession of them 
was not constantly kept on its guard. So 
Christ's mission to this earth to go through 
awful sufferings to show mankind they could 
live righteously, if they would only resist 
Satan to the defeat of all his deceit and 
power. 

When the great work of placing a spirit 
in possession of Adam, who had been pro- 
posed for this dwelling place, there had been 
no sin on the earth. When Adam was made 
ready for a dwelling place for the first spirit 
that said, "Here am I. Send me. I am ready 
to go," this spirit was accepted, and Adam 
became a living soul. 



CHAPTER V. 
PEOPLING THE EARTH— SIN 

(From Original Transcription) 

WE HAVE seen from the foregoing how 
the earth was called into existence and 
how it began to be peopled. The circum- 
stances attending this first installment of the 
creation provide us with a mighty drama. 
In the first place there was a division in 
heaven over the proposition to enter upon 
the great creative scheme; and by Lucifer's 
rebellion sin came into life. Then the garden 
is prepared and the first pair placed therein. 
The war of sin then passed from heaven 
to the earth, and this first pair, Adam and 
Eve, became victims to the sin of disobedi- 
ence. The spirits who came to the earth had 
petitioned that they be allowed to dwell in 
earthly bodies made of the atoms to be 
formed and established as the constituents of 
the earth, and in the likeness of the creator 

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himself. So it was decreed that out of the 
constituents of the gases an earth substance 
should be formed. Hence, it is plain that we 
were not the first dwellers in planet life, and 
that all solid and fixed planets have been in- 
habited with forms of life similar to those 
existing on the earth now, or that they will 
be so inhabited in the future. 

The desires of the spirit powers as set forth 
in the petition for this creation were many, 
but the main ones were like unto these; all 
were to go to the different planets as their 
turns came and to dwell in earthly bodies for 
a fixed time, as already stated, but each one 
on taking possession of a body was to leave 
behind its heavenly personality, to the de- 
gree, at least, that it should become a free 
moral agent on being embodied in flesh and 
blood, to the exclusion, in consciousness, of 
its former or future states, so as not to have 
a longing to return, but go on down through 
earth existences, forming governments, just 
a little lower than the angels of high heaven, 
and under the heavenly kingdom and to the 
extent that it could do exactly as it pleased 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 55 

without any hindrances; each one with full 
power to act for himself or herself, in all 
matters pertaining to earth life. 

This earth was to be a most beautiful abid- 
ing place for the soul and body that were to 
be united in the creation. Everything good 
and lovely that could be thought of was to 
be supplied for the comfort and happiness of 
the tabernacle. The man and woman formed 
in the image of their maker, God, King of 
the heavenly home, or Kingdom of Eternity, 
for whom there never had been a beginning 
and never would be an end, the God who had 
created all the spirit powers that existed, out 
of and through his power over nature, by 
uniting the etheric and nitratic elements of 
space, positive and negative, male and fe- 
male. Look into the mirror, dear reader, and 
behold thyself, the image and likeness of this 
Father God. 

You are placed here only a little lower than 
the angels with all power to do as you choose, 
and endowed with intelligence that will guide 
you safely through life's journey. 



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Hark! The trumpet bearers are command- 
ed to sound their trumpets, and the spirit 
powers have assembled and gathered round 
the great throne of purity and heavenly love. 
The commandment had long since gone forth 
that earthy tabernacles should be provided 
on earth, suitable temples for spirits to dwell 
in. Now, the declaration was to be signed, 
sealed and promulgated. A beautiful gar- 
den, as stated, had been prepared, and a 
form in the likeness of God himself had been 
placed therein. And thus the peopling of 
the earth was begun. 

And now our vision presents to us a pic- 
ture of a garden of luxuriant fruitage, a 
noble young man and a beautiful young wo- 
man, who became father Adam and mother 
Eve. It gives us a clear outline of these 
primeval lovers, the first pair in wedlock of 
which we have a record. It also lays open to 
vision a most attractive home and a trans- 
cendentally beautiful garden which were the 
heritage of this interesting pair. Thus, upon 
their arrival upon this fair earth, they found 
everything needful for happiness and delight, 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 57 

at their hands. Indeed, everything that 
could minister to their good was, by the Cre- 
ator, presented to them. The garden was 
filled with beautiful trees, flowers and fruits 
of every description. In the midst of it all, 
rose in attractive form, the Tree of Life, and 
the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. 

The Creator, I say, placed them in this 
transporting home-garden, and gave them all 
these wonderful bounties. How merciful and 
loving must this God have been to thus 
provide for his creatures ! 

Now, reflect! Contemplate! From whence 
cometh this God, with wonderful power and 
amazing love? Out of the immensity of liv- 
ing space created he this primeval pair, male 
and female; as, also, created he all living; 
and he looked upon his infinite work and pro- 
nounced it good! And he left this beautiful 
man and woman in this love-inspiring gar- 
den, endowed with power and dominion over 
it. 

But he commanded them not to touch, nor 
to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge 
of good and evil, under the penalty that in 



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the day they should eat thereof, they would 
surely die. 

Now, mark! Must there not have been 
some great, far-reaching reason for issuing 
such a commandment to this wonderful pair ? 
God, a Creator possessing, or being the em- 
bodiment of all power; and of whom it is 
written that he knew and knows all things — 
is and was the beginning and ending of all 
things — merciful, loving and kind, a God of 
love and perfection, to the degree that he 
placed man and woman on this earth, and 
gave them full power and dominion over the 
whole earth, to do precisely as they pleased. 
In this situation they could do as they might 
choose, because they were created free moral 
agents. Hence, the tree of life and the tree 
of knowledge of good and evil were placed 
before them in this beautiful garden; and, 
hence, the commandment! 

But let me show you a picture ! Have you 
ever carefully read that book we call our 
bible, or the Word of God? If so, have you 
stopped to consider well, the conditions 
under which it is written ; and that this book 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 59 

has been handed down to us by absolute in- 
spiration? What think you? Was it writ- 
ten by man alone, or has it come down to us 
by the same hand that created all of us ? If, 
by a merciful God, who knew all things, then, 
why all this darkness, this sin, this sorrow, 
and this awful cry, "Am I my brother's 
keeper?" 

Behold the picture as I place it upon the 
canvas of your minds. I seek to place it 
there so fast and immovable that it will be 
impossible for others to displace it. Yea, I 
wish to make the impression so deep, that all 
the powers of evil cannot prevail against you, 
or turn you away from the truth. 

Look back through the great space of 
time, millions of years backwards, into eter- 
nity! We read of the great distance of the 
sun and the moon from this earth, millions 
of miles away from us. We hear and read of 
great lights passing through the heavens, 
which, according to our astronomers, have 
been hundreds of millions of miles in their 
travels. Think of it! No beginning, no 
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60 WONDERFUL PURPOSE OF 

— eternity. Behold when you look up of 

nights into this immensity, at the hundreds 
and hundreds of sparkling bright lights, con- 
cerning which our astronomers tell us they 
are stars in the heavens, millions and mil- 
lions of miles away. We cannot doubt them 
because they have the great telescope, and 
other unerring instruments that measure 
these distances, so that the experienced cal- 
culator can figure out to a nicety any one of 
these distances; then look at me standing 
here before you, and ask yourself, if all these 
wonders came into existence by chance. 

No, kind friends, they were all called into 
existence by this wonderful God — this God 
of Nature. Then, if there is a God there 
must be a devil, for let me assure you here 
and now, that the tree of life, and the tree 
of knowledge of good and evil, never would 
have been planted in that beautiful Garden 
of Eden, and I would not be telling you of 
that God and that devil, if this were not the 
truth. 

And now, as I lay bare to you, or further 
unfold the canvas upon which the picture is 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 61 

painted, I wish you, irrespective of sect, 
church~6r creed, to allow your minds to follow 
me, without prejudice, because what I am 
about to reveal comes from omnipotent 
power. It is not here delivered for argu- 
ment, because you will see, if you give me 
your undivided attention, that what I state 
is fact and cannot be denied. 

Behold the lightnings as they flash across 
the sky ! Hark to the mighty thunder's peal ! 
One you see; the other you hear; and when 
the wind blows and the rain comes down in 
torrents, you easily may imagine that the 
very elements are at war. Here you have no 
doubts but that a storm is passing. I stand 
here before you and stretch forth my hands. 
I move. I talk. You know these things to be 
the facts, but no one knows how or from 
whence we move and have our being. 

Neither can you, for a certainty, tell from 
whence cometh the powers that shake the 
very heavens, or that illuminate them by the 
stars and moon at night. It surely is not 
the work of nature alone. It all comes of 
something far mightier than a combination 



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of elements. So, as you behold these count- 
less stars, I am to show you a mighty God 
of Nature. Look at Him! I, it is written, 
am in his likeness! As the stars shined, so 
he shined forth upon his great throne mil- 
lions of years ago, a throne of purity so pure 
that not even a thought of impurity could 
come nigh into it. 

And now let me say, quoting my own 
words, "Why all this darkness, this sorrow ?" 
The answer, as will be seen is found only in 
the awfulness of sin. The people of this 
world have not yet awakened to a full under- 
standing of the awfulness of sin. When they 
do. so, they will know the cause of suffering, 
and the cure for it. 

Here ends the original transcript. 



CHAPTER VI. 
AWFULNESS OF SIN 

FROM THIS point to the close of this 
small effort, the revelation committed to 
me is transcribed into modern terms, a term- 
inology more easily understood and yet 
much that follows will tax the thought-pow- 
ers of the reader. It is not in the "new" but 
the higher thought, and assuredly is a closer 
approach to the truth than is the case with 
the best of the modern cults, or the ancient 
occults. 

The awfulness of sin can be understood 
only by a true understanding of what ter- 
rible disorganization and desolation it has 
brought to our world and mankind. How un- 
fortunate it has been, and still is that our 
learning has been so zealously employed in 
making light of sin. The genius of this 
learning has been harnessed in a service that 
seeks to demonstrate the nothingness of sin. 

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This in itself would seem to partake of the 
"unpardonable sin." So-called religion pos- 
sesses itself of a new and stronger grip on 
humans, when it teaches that there is no 
sin, — that it is unreal, or a false doctrine of 
the old religion, and that its existence should 
be denied. 

But look how we have become ' 'scattered 
abroad, without a shepherd," by it. It is 
parent to every f orm of disease and sickness ; 
every wrongful marriage and every afflict- 
ing divorce, and all the suicides of history. 
It has given us rum, vice, poverty and crime. 
It has reduced man's work, which should be 
a source of joy, to miserable servitude and 
slavery. It has given to mankind capital and 
labor, the first a false power, the last, its 
product. It has given us almshouses, asy- 
lums, prisons and the gallows. It has cov- 
ered and permeated the earth with discord, 
conflict and catastrophe. It has invaded hu- 
man society and corrupted its activities. It 
has filled human mental states with disease, 
until the expressions of these, in actions, 
have become surfeited with evil. It has so 



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separated us from each other, that it is well 
nigh impossible for the man to find his true 
mate. It has destroyed brotherhood and 
true fellowship, and turned co-operation into 
oppression. It has brought to the human 
family all its woes, sorrows, privations, afflic- 
tions, calamities, wars, and has turned man 
against man, until the earth is filled with 
wickedness and death. 

In short, sin is our only enemy. It has 
blinded man until he cannot find his own 
property in the world, and this has led him 
to commit the other sin of possessing himself 
of the property which rightfully belongs to 
others. It has further blinded his natural 
vision, until he cannot see the grand old 
earth, in it reality. Sin has covered man's 
vision until he cannot behold a single reality 
of the physical universe. In this blindness, 
his vision is crooked and he can see only that 
which is in discord, and this discord always 
is within him and in the fact of evil. 

Sin has commercialized society and its ac- 
tivities, until churches, institutions of learn- 
ing, charities and welfare organizations, and 



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the professions are turned into clearing 
houses, one and all, for commercial gain. 
The almighty dollar has become the great 
object of worship for a vast majority; and 
our church goers, possibly, for the greater 
part, attend these important places out of 
recognition of God, and for the purpose of 
holding to an empty respectability. 

Merchandising has become theft, and the 
price fixers of our country's Wall streets, 
small and great, gloat over their wickedly 
gotten gains, while the homes of the land, 
which they are pinching and impoverishing 
are made desolate with the cries of starving 
mothers, infants and children. 

One of the modern forms of sin, which my 
vision commands me to expose is that new 
propaganda of "birth regulation," which goes 
to the awful extreme of teaching and train- 
ing women in methods for avoiding the glory 
and honor of motherhood. When disease 
and other disqualifications prevail, wedlock 
should be prevented, until such effects of sin 
are removed, but when this new cult seeks 
to prevent God's spirit-children from coming 



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into the flesh, so as to obtain imperishable 
bodies, sin is reaching a climax, in the name 
of modern science that calls for terrible pun- 
ishment. 

Another of these forms is the deception of 
the strong and enlightened practiced against 
the weak and dependent, in methods calcu- 
lated to hold the latter in the bondage of 
servitude. Industrial economy is reeking 
with sin. The earth contains enough, and 
an abundance, for each and all, but its riches 
are "cornered" by delaying developments, 
and defeating the natural rights of industry. 
Sin is rolling over our world and covering the 
human race with awful conditions; and the 
end is not yet. 

Wars and conflicts cover the earth, and 
the people cry for peace. I warn my country 
that it never can have sin and peace at the 
same time. They cannot dwell together. 
Put away sin, and peace, with happines, will 
come in great showers of blessing. Until 
this is done, the race will continue to harvest 
according to the seed it sows; and I am in- 
structed of my vision to declare that a flood- 



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tide of one of these awful harvests of sin, 
very close to our doors, will consume a great 
portion of our world and our race, unless 
there is quick turning from existing wicked 
practices. 

Yes, dear reader, it is quite easy to see the 
goodness of our Creator through the oversha- 
dowing clouds of suffering in our world, 
when a realization of the awfulness of sin is 
brought home to an intelligent conscious- 
ness. But the enormity of the sin of dis- 
obedience towards the Creator is seen to the 
strongest advantage in the view that brings 
to light the wonderful blessings which God 
had provided for man, and placed at his dis- 
posal, at the very time when he turned his 
back upon overflowing goodness. The splen- 
dor and glory of our world home, in its first 
estate, and the nobleness, grandeur and 
beauty of the new and everlasting bodies 
which God had provided for his children on 
the earth, together with all needful bounties 
for the happiness of planetary life, leave the 
understanding no room to conceive why they 
should practically begin this new life by a 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 69 

most flagrant act of disobedience and ingrat- 
itude, towards the hand from which their 
innumerable blessings (and bounties freely 
flowed. This was their awful sin, and it still 
remains the problem of the ages. 

They escaped the tempter of the first sin 
committed in high heaven, by refusing to 
join Lucifer in his rebellion; and they sealed 
their fond obedience to their Great Creator, 
while yet in the status of spirit powers, or 
forms of life, by agreeing to come, and by 
coming, to earth to put on, and wear these 
new, spiritual bodies of everlasting glory 
and surpassing beauty. But as soon as they 
entered upon their hew situation, and while 
yet drinking in the inspirational glory of 
their wonderful prospects, they fell victims 
to the evil designs of Lucifer, who ap- 
proached them in his spirit form, employing 
all the cunning and skill of a fallen arch- 
angel. In the midst of glory and bounty, 
having escaped participation in the First Sin, 
they, in an hour of mysterious beguilement, 
committed the Second Sin of Disobedience 
which found its way into life on the earth. 



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This second sin, called in our creeds, the 
"original sin," passed, with its penalty of 
death — the death of a sin disorganized body 
— upon, and became the terrible heritage of, 
all of God's earthly children. Now, in order 
to see what the immediate consequences of 
this sin were, I here reproduce the most won- 
derful part of my vision. 



CHAPTER VII. 
PORTAL TO HUMAN CONDITIONS 

IN ORDER that the reader may more fully 
understand what sin has wrought to our 
earth and to mankind, it is expedient to elab- 
orate the physical and mental conditions 
of both, as they came from the hand of the 
Creator, or as they existed in what I shall call 
the Edenic state. In that state the earth 
was perfect, harmonious, in celestial glory. 
It was in the constitution of living, thinking, 
knowing atomic forces, each discreted, or in 
distinctive tone coloration, or character, the 
whole in a great mass form of social organ- 
ization, and in the apperception of harmony. 
It was the world-home of God's children. In 
a grand sense, it was composed of the light, 
and was capable of developing and supplying 
such bounties and uses as were needful for 
the happiness of its inhabitants. 

The new bodies which adorned the new 
comers to this earth-home were composed of 

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the same living, knowing stuff; and these 
bodies were clothed upon the spirit forms, 
or souls of these children, with which they 
were in natural affinity, in such a way, and 
in such creative skill, that this duality be- 
came a unity, or one distinctly. In the high- 
est sense these primeval people were spiritual 
beings, living in a celestial home-world. They 
were not bound, or chained to the earth, by 
gravitation, or any other force, but of their 
own volition, were capable of rising and go- 
ing to and fro anywhere within their spheres 
of the etheric spaces. The vertical force was 
not then, as now, in sympathy with burdens 
and heaviness. In the period of which I am 
speaking, light was light, not darkness, and 
lightness, not weight. 

Now, when the primeval pair, Adam and 
Eve, committed the awful sin of disobedi- 
ence, they expelled themselves from this 
Edenic state, and had imposed upon them 
and their descendants, not only the penalty 
of death, but the necessity of work, or in- 
dustry, in the "sweat of the face," in order 
that, by good deeds, performed in right pur- 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 73 

poses, they and their descendants should, 
through the application of the Christ plan, 
be able to rebuild their sin destroyed bodies, 
and regain their lost estate. As they went 
forth in the moral darkness which their 
avoidable sin of disobedience created, they 
caught the whisper of the promise, which 
later resolved itself to the New Covenant; 
and it was, for a long period, the only ray of 
light for their guidance. 

Turning from that age and its awful catas- 
trophe, to the present time, we can see, in 
present conditions, what measure of progress 
the race of man has made to overcome sin 
and its terrible effects. We now are making 
light of sin, and endeavoring, by mental pro- 
cesses, to escape its fury, on the one hand, 
while on the other and everywhere, an awful 
world war is raging, prematurely claiming 
millions and millions of humans for desolate 
graves, and spreading fear, calamity, suicide 
and death throughout all lands. Compara- 
tively speaking we are making but little pro- 
gress, but, nevertheless we are achieving 
some headway. In many respects, human 



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conditions are improving; in others they ap- 
pear to be growing worse. The pilgrimage 
from * 'Man's first disobedience and the fruit 
of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 
brought death into the world, and all our 
woes," is proving a long, afflicting one, but, 
for a renewal of our hopes, and a strengthen- 
ing of our faith, we turn to Calvary and the 
cross, and behold the precious blood with 
which the New Covenant is sealed, and take 
new courage. 

I can see that mankind is yet to be awak- 
ened to the awfulness of sin. This awaken- 
ing is as much, if not more, needed by our 
preachers and teachers, as by those who have 
wholly forgotten God. We should no longer 
seek to convert the heathen, in the cause of 
trade and commerce, but rather should we 
realize our own nakedness. It is not that 
this awakening of itself can save the people, 
but that it will uncover the terrible forms 
of sin which are hiding in high places. 

Our civilization is reeking with sin, and is 
commercialized in the cause of mammon, until 
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THE PHYSICAL CREATION 75 

and dependent classes, cries to heaven for 
vengeance. 

There is, proportionately speaking, too 
much defective thinking and talking and 
teaching, and far too little action. Men and 
women must work out the problems of this 
errorized, or humanized state of life, which 
began at Eden's Gate, and will continue until 
sin has been vanquished. Thinking and 
teaching are good in their places, but until 
right thought forces are transformed into 
good deeds, in actual conduct, this good 
thinking will remain less than half done work. 

It has been revealed to me that our people 
— men and women — may rapidly overcome 
sin, and its effects of poverty and want, by 
a more intelligent application of industry. 
As I have shown you, the earth contains all 
needed supplies, just as industry and skill 
constitute the all of instrumentality for the 
rescue and appropriation of these bounties. 
Now, from what has been said, it probably is 
seen that we are, or are rapidly becoming, in 
consciousness, human industrial institutions. 
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force and motion plan of organization, and, 
therefore, are, of themselves small industrial 
systems. These bodily systems, being of a 
mental nature, grow, develop and become 
trained by the pursuit of rightly directed in- 
dustry. This is of the greatest importance. 
The people do not generally understand this 
truth. 

Now, as this development goes forward, 
man is levitated, enlightened, throws off 
burdens, dispels darkness of a mental kind, 
is released from the bondage of fear, poverty 
and want, is improved in health, harmony 
and general strength. He passes from a 
weakling to a status of power. By rightly 
directed industry he rises out of temptation 
and sin, and moves forward to occupy higher 
moral ground. But industry, to accomplish 
these good ends, must be carried on for self 
as well as for others. It will not do to prac- 
tice industry for the improvement of the per- 
sonality alone, while others carry off its 
fruitage. The bounties created by industry 
belong to the worker as well as the good re- 
sults to the body, or the personality. 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 77 

In a full appreciation of the educational ef- 
fects of applied industry and skill, I have 
long been a faithful worker on mechanical, 
chemical, metallurgical and scientific lines, 
and I have wrought out many valuable in- 
ventions. These all have to do, one way or 
another, with the work of appropriating the 
treasures of the earth. I have become suf- 
ficiently acquainted with the atomic forces, 
or constituents of the earth and its atmos- 
phere, to talk to them, or commune with 
them. I have trained them to obey my com- 
mand. I love them and they love me. My 
industrial side always has been inclined to 
get close to Mother Earth. She is the keeper 
of all the riches we seek. She possesses what 
is better than money. Her chemical process- 
es constitute an industry which is resolved 
to continuous lessons in truth and righteous- 
ness, and I have appropriated them all. 

From this training I am moved to found a 
school of educational industry — not so 
much of industrial education. That is good in 
its place. But I find more power in the les- 
sons that right industry teaches, than in 



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those which train me to perform industrial 
tasks. This kind of education has given to 
me a clear vision — a true understanding of 
the atomic constitution of the earth, and the 
body — the real body of man. I desire, there- 
fore, to instruct the reader as to these things, 
and then, later, to work in closer relations 
with all who read these pages, in a compre- 
hensive plan for the establishment of a 
great school of practice in actual, educational 
industry, for the objects and purposes of 
acquiring an independence in earthly riches, 
in the becoming by overcoming sin, and de- 
stroying error and wrong in the world. To 
this end the reader's careful attention is 
directed to the following synthesis of the 
revelation that has come to me concerning 
the constitution of the earth and the per- 
sonality of man. This will give us a better 
knowledge of the physical creation and the 
human state of life, not only because it will 
further elaborate our primeval state, but the 
conditions, or states of what we call human 
life. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
RE-CREATING THE BODY 

READERS should hold in constant mental 
vision the dual fact that while those 
spirit forms which volunteered to come to 
this earth to dwell in physical bodies, at the 
heavenly event of Lucifer's rebellion, cannot 
be lost, even ultimately, with the possible ex- 
ception of Judas, as to the first harvest of 
the redeemed, they cannot be saved, even 
through the mission of the Christ, in their 
sins! This salvation will be delayed, with 
much suffering, until the elect here referred 
to — the elect according to an explanation in 
an early chapter of this effort — forsake and 
turn away from their sins. They still pos- 
sess the power of choice, still may exercise 
their powers of free moral agency, and until 
this is heartily done in acceptance of salva- 
tion, by the life, crucifixion, resurrection, 
ascension and mediation of Jesus, they can- 

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not be numbered among the redeemed. The 
test of their compliance with this fixed de- 
cree is contained in the scripture, "By their 
fruits ye shall know them." 

In addition to this there is the test of re- 
generation. All those who passed under the 
penalty of the Edenic sin, and thereby lost 
a consciousness of their spiritual bodies, 
must, by new embodiments of good deeds, re- 
construct their forfeited, or lost bodies, bit 
by bit — atom by atom — so to speak, before 
their restoration will be complete. They will 
be given ample time and full opportunity for 
this work. This may appear very severe, 
coming as it does from a God of Love, but it 
is 1 the measure — the just measure — of the 
awfulness of sin. This latter lesson is as 
important for them to learn, as that other, 
teaching us of the amazing sacrifice of God's 
only Son, which made this method of re- 
demption and conciliation possible. 

These data of truth constitute, in part, my 
revelation of truth, which came to me in un- 
mistakable terms, when I lay helpless and 
sentiently unconscious, as the result of the 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 81 

terrible accident resulting from, as I believe, 
a designed explosion of gas in Indianapolis, 
aimed to destroy my physical life, because I 
had discovered the means and methods for 
making high grade gas at a mere nominal 
cost. This revelation explains in what 
methods the restoration — the restoration in 
consciousness — of God's children to Edenic 
conditions is to be accomplished. It is in a 
plan equal to saying that the work of crea- 
tion, by which the Edenic Earth and the 
spiritual bodies of God's children, which, in 
purity, first lived on the earth, is all to be 
done over again. This is to be achieved by 
the Master, through the volitive instrumen- 
tality of his followers, so that man, in a won- 
derful sense, while he was the responsible 
author of his own ruin, becomes the willing 
agency, under divine wisdom, of his own re- 
generation and restoration. 

This method of re-creation, which is the 
essence of the regeneration — the resurrec- 
tion of the understanding — here spoken of is 
best understood by a true account of the 
original physical creation. Hence, I say that 



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a convenient key to the great purposes and 
wonderful processes of the physical creation, 
including that of everliving spiritual bodies 
for God's spirit-creatures is revealed in an 
understanding of the latest and most real 
atomic conception, partly elaborated by 
Aristotle. and his plhlosjphical successors. 
There are the old, the modern and the new 
atom:: theories. The first rose from the intu- 
itional vision of the ancient philosophers ; 
the second is the creation of modern science. 
and. therefore, is the product of the trained 
sensibilities: the last is the nrst harvest of 
the re— intuition, which is taking the 
husks off the kernels of modern science, 
and uncovering its true significance. 

The first gave us atoms, or particles, or 
items, or reflexes of mind, or life, but did 
not venture, to any great extent., upon an ex- 
planation of the nature, or character of these 
units ; the second gives us inorganic, or dead 
particles of what is called matter : the third 
is giving us discreted atoms of natural force, 
with their creative motions, including a 
realm of movability, or change, in the status 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION \\ 

of an expression, or reflection of immovabil- 
ity, or the changeless. These new units, so 
tc speak, are found to be knowing, and in the 

nature of life, partaking of the status ;: 
their source. 

Of course, this classification is for con- 
venience only, since all three are one \ 

the same, and are here employed to represent 

three different states of understanding, the 

last being the highest and most fllnminated 

It should be noted here that these natural 

force and motion atoms, or units, even 
when in mass bodies, are invisible to physical 
sight, except as to their effects, even as great 

natural world forces are invisible to the same 
method of apprehension, save as to their ef- 
fects. Now, it is of these life units, that our 
planet, and the original body of man were 
composed Hence, the earth and the man, 
which we see and behold with the eyes, to- 
day, are in the effects of sin. respectively. 
This is fundamentally important. 

Of coarse we do not, in our present state, 
behold with the eyes, either the real earth, 
or the real personality of man. exceDt as it is 



84 WONDERFUL PURPOSE OF 

expressed in the poise and actions of the lat- 
ter, but we are rising to a plain view of the 
reality of both, in a vision of consciousness 
properly called a true understanding. We 
must behold a fact, or thing, by the vision of 
understanding, before we can know of its 
reality, or unreality. We appropriate knowl- 
edge — knowledge of truth — through under- 
standing, which itself, is the light of life. It 
is only by the truth that we can know any 
part of the truth. Strictly speaking, what we 
call human knowledge, at best, is a relative 
condition. 

From the foregoing observations it is seen 
that the constitution of the real body — the 
physically invisible body — of the real man, 
as also of the earth, is in the status of an in- 
dustrial system, a system, or organization 
of forces in motion, embracing an almost in- 
finite variety of magnitudes, each in an orbit 
and rate of vibration — life — peculiar to its 
status, and the whole in a mutually depen- 
dent motion, expressive of its distinctive 
sociological compact. This organization of 
forces is in the apperception of a high degree 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 85 

of harmony, but is subject to the purpose, or 
motive— the choice — of its mental and emo- 
tional functions. 

The creator of this wonderful embodiment 
— the temple or mansion of a spirit form of 
life — having in view the needs of this phys- 
ical creation, from the viewpoint of its force 
and motion, or industrial nature, projected 
or arranged, in order, a system, or plan of 
vocations, trades, callings and pursuits, for 
the development of the riches, or resources 
of the earth, necessary to the supply of need- 
ful temporal bounties, thus making it incum- 
bent upon these personalities to pursue 
these industries, in the pursuit of which 
their energies would be employed in such a 
way as to work out their transformation, 
training and development. 

In another way, and in mutual dependence 
with this personality, the earth and its heav- 
ens, being, in like manner, but on a lower 
plane, in the status of force and motion in- 
dustrial systems are carrying on like activi- 
ties, both by their units and their organiza- 
tions. 



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Now, we can behold physical reflections of 
these activities of man and his world, with 
the eyes, but the real processes going on, as 
stated, we do not physically see. These we 
can apprehend only by the vision of under- 
standing. Just as those appearances which 
we apprehend by physical sight are but ex- 
pressions, or reflexes of real, but unseen pro- 
cesses, hidden from this vision, so, in the 
same fact, we can see that our visible activi- 
ties are not what we really are doing, but in 
some wonderful way, in the effects of what 
we really are doing. 

The latter is in the sublime industry of 
rebuilding, or restoring a consciousness of 
the imperishable bodies of God's children, 
a work in which these rising children are the 
chief instrumentalities, in the hands and 
under the matchless skill of the Creator. 

Thought should not here proceed further 
without this guide : It is noted that human 
personalities, or their real bodies are com- 
posed of unit, natural forces, and that these 
are life forces, possessing reflex intelligence. 
Now, by mental and physical industry, car- 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 87 

ried on, as stated, these unit forces are trans- 
formed from discreted forces to distinctive 
actions. These forces already are in the real 
body. The actions, or deeds to which they 
are resolved, as stated, also are brought 
forth in the body. They are the "deeds done 
in the body." 

Now, when these are good deeds, actions 
impelled by true value purposes, or a right 
motive, like the forces from which they 
flow, they are immortal, ever-living. Thus, 
the real body, now in course of construction, 
is an immortal body — a heavenly body — the 
body of the resurrection of the understand- 
ing. 

When the new, real body of man is re- 
vealed it will be, in the highest sense, a 
"book or remembrance," because it will be 
an embodiment of the good deeds done in the 
body. The evil deeds will long ago have de- 
stroyed themselves, with much suffering to 
the sentient consciousness. 

Thus, it is seen, in what wonderful way, 
the restoration from sin and its effects is 
being wrought. This is a true interpreta- 



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tion of the Christ plan of salvation. It com- 
prehends the complete destruction of sin, or 
the effects of the awful disobedience in the 
Garden, and the reconstruction, or re-crea- 
tion, of the spiritual bodies with which men 
and women were endowed at the beginning 
of personal life on the earth. It must be 
seen that the physical creation, as to its ori- 
ginal purpose, aimed at the goal of creating 
distinctive personalities, or individualities, 
in the constitution of a spirit soul, and a 
spiritual body, with the infinite mind, or di- 
vine, creative agency, to serve in unbroken 
continuity, as the third and supreme element. 
It also is to be seen that neither the rebellion 
of Lucifer in heaven, nor the disobedience of 
the Garden were able, or will be able to de- 
feat the divine purpose of this new creation. 
God's word — creative word — cannot re- 
turn unto him void. The supreme creator 
knew all things from the beginning, and, as 
later will be seen, he not only destroys evil, 
but overrules it in such skill, wisdom and 
power, that the overcoming of it constitutes 
a series of stepping-stones upon which his 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 89 

creatures mount the summit of the restora- 
tion from sin and its terrible effects. 

These data go to some important lengths 
in explaining the purpose and processes of 
the physical creation, but this part of the 
wonderful story is but begun. 

We may turn now to realize, to some ex- 
tent, the nature of these atomic forces. In 
this effort a resort to partial metaphor be- 
comes necessary. I now call to the atten- 
tion of consciousness the wonderful fact of 
the universal mind, the every-where present 
intelligence of infinitude. This is the only 
truly solid substance, because it upholds, 
sustains and controls all things. It is the 
creative source of all things. It supports, 
impels and guides our planet and all the 
other heavenly bodies. 

Continuing in partial metaphor, we con- 
ceive that this mind thinks, and expresses 
thought. In the same concept we can see 
that this mind is an expressor, and that the 
physical universe is in the nature of its ex- 
pression. Now, all power — all natural force 
— proceeds from this infinite intelligence. 



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Can we not, therefore, see that the atoms of 
natural force composing the earth, the heav- 
ens and man are in the nature of the 
thought or ideas expressed by the one and 
only mind? 

Thus, we have resolved the real atom to 
a thought, and any number of them con- 
venient to form a compound, to an idea; and 
in this vision, aided by other observations in 
this chapter, we can understand how it is 
that the worlds were made by words, since 
words express thoughts and ideas. 

These concepts bring the stuff from which 
the earth, the heavens and man are com- 
posed very close together. They show us in 
what source all the real entities, or things 
of the physical universe are alive and know- 
ing — in the nature of reflex intelligence. 

What we call physical, or human is a state 
or condition of life, and that state, whatever 
it may be, exists wholly, as to human under- 
standing, in whatever nature the vision of 
human consciousness, which is in the fact 
of that understanding, sees it to be — per- 
ceives or conceives it to be. 



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In this connection note must be made of 
the difference between the changeless and 
the ever changing, between immovability and 
movability. The universal mind is change- 
less. Its expressions are in potentiality — 
ever changing, growing, developing. 

There also is a difference between mind 
and mentality. Mind is intelligence — sub- 
stance — life. Mentality is in the nature of an 
expression — an expressed image of its ex- 
pressor. That which proceeds from mind is 
mental. In this true sense the physical uni- 
verse and man are mental. Man, apart from 
spirit, that is to say, his physical embodi- 
ment — his real body — is mental, composed 
of mental stuff. 

The, so called, visible, or material body of 
man is no part of the man. It is not real. 
Its existence has no other status than that 
created by his growing, developing, mental 
states, and by the error which is entertained 
by those states. The whole of the real man, 
apart from his spirit entity, is mental; and 
this applies to his real body and every part 
of it. Indeed, the Idea that man is in the 



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constitution of body, mind and soul is true 
only when this body is understood to include 
his mentality, and all of it; when this mind is 
apprehended as the universal mind, or every- 
where present intelligence, which is the right- 
ful mind of man ; and when this soul is regard- 
ed as the spirit power, or spirit form, for 
which the whole mental-physical universe is 
now, under divine direction, spinning and 
weaving an imperishable body. 

This mental embodiment, or body, when 
it has become divested of all error and evil, 
and when the consciousness of its mental 
states becomes harmonious, so that it will 
enjoy a true understanding, or clear vision 
of truth, will be revealed to this vision as 
the scriptural, spiritual body. As we can 
see, this body is "sown a natural body, and 
raised a spiritual body" in the resurrection 
of the understanding. 

The wonderful organization of this mental 
body, already accomplished, with its special 
senses and mighty sweep of sensibilities, 
each in positive and negative duality, awaits 
only the coming of the harmony just refer- 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 93 

red to, to enter upon a full consciousness of 
its spiritual status, a status always perfect 
and spiritual in potentiality, and actually be- 
coming so only in the successively rising 
realizations of consciousness. 



CHAPTER IX. 
SIN AND SALVATION 

CO-ETERNAL with infinitude there is the 
Father-Mother-Son God. In a spiritual 
and impersonal sense, the first two qualifying 
terms, indicate the inherent duality of Spirit, 
from whence the physical centrifugal-centri- 
petal force proceeds. This is said upon the 
solid foundation of truth that all things of 
creation are an image and likeness of the 
Creator. The last qualifying name repre- 
sents the creation — all things. This is a high 
thought concept, and a safe guide for think- 
ing, concerning the impersonality of God. ..In 
our present state we can know nothing of the 
personality of Spirit, whether it is before or 
after the fact of Spirit, or whether such a 
state exists at all, because the personality of 
the risen Christ never has been physically 
apprehended by man, except as the "light of 

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THE PHYSICAL CREATION 95 

the world," and, of course, this can be spiritu- 
ally understood only. 

Co-everlasting with time and sense there 
is a state of torment and suffering, and an 
Evil One, commonly called Satan, together 
with an innumerable number of fallen, or 
evil spirit powers. These conditions came 
into functional existence by sin, and they 
will not pass until the last trace of sin has 
been destroyed. They will pass from the 
earth and from life on the earth, with the 
final and complete departure of sin, which 
will be realized in the Great Restoration. In 
a realm of thought and sense, far away from 
earth, these conditions may prevail forever 
and forever, as the abode of Satan and his 
persistent evil spirit followers, which refused 
to enter upon planetary life, when the oppor- 
tunity was first given, and which still per- 
sisted in this disobedience, until the day for 
their redemption had passed. 

These data of truth cannot be set at 
naught in belief, faith, thought, nor action, 
without producing error, evil, and their ter- 
rible consequences. The Christ, or divine 



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plan of salvation from sin, first pardons a 
sinner, on account of his belief in the efficacy 
of this plan, his faith in Christ as the Son 
of God and his sorrow for sin, but it does not 
destroy sin, nor remove its consequences 
from the life of such sinner. The latter are 
achieved only by willing obedience. By dis- 
obedience sin came into the world ; by pardon 
and obedience, only, can sin and its effects 
be destroyed, and the sinner be restored to 
the purity of his primeval estate. 

The methods in thought, conclusion and 
action — conduct and character — by which 
the results of sin on our world, society, and 
the mental and bodily states of the sinner, 
are destroyed are somewhat fully elaborated 
on preceding pages. These as stated, are in 
a work of re-creation — in an industry of re- 
creating the lost body. The restoration here 
indicated restores the original goal of the 
new creation, in the understanding, and vin- 
dicates the scripture saying that God's word 
shall not return unto him void. The purpose 
of the Creator could not, and cannot, be de- 
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thought that Lucifer's rebellion could defeat, 
or even delay, the plan, or purpose of God, 
so that in a grand way, not as yet fully under- 
stood, all that took place in connection with 
the program of creation, are integral parts 
of the processes of that wonderful work. 

It is folly to say that the sin committed in 
heaven did not work to its natural effects on 
the spirit forms which refused, with Lucifer, 
to enter upon planetary life, because the 
reverse of this is truth. Our earth still is be- 
sieged by a host of evil spirit-powers, which, 
at Satan's bidding, continuously assail and 
misdirect the thought and passion of hu- 
mans. In the becoming by overcoming of 
the re-creation, these evil spirit-forces are 
conquered and vanquished, through the 
power of the Christ within. 

It must come into our knowledge that the 
work of the Christ in the plan of salvation, 
which in reality, is the plan of the re-crea- 
tion, or the restoration, extends to that of 
enlisting the divine services of the Spirit, to 
the extent that, following the ascension, this 
great TMother Comforter and Strengthener 



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came to earth, where she still resides, ever 
ready to assist the struggling penitent, in 
the work of overcoming evil forces. Hence, 
it is with each believer, as God, in effect, told 
Satan respecting Job, namely, that he was 
given the power to afflict, but that he would 
not be permitted to even touch the life of 
any of his earthly children. Thus, power is 
available sufficient for the successful endea- 
vor, in the volative, believing effort, of man, 
to "work out his own salvation," in loving 
obedience. 



In both our earlier and modern psycholo- 
gies much is written concerning the organi- 
zation and functions of the mentality of man. 
This mentality is conveniently, but in error, 
called the human mind. As stated, there is 
no human mind, as such, but there is a more 
or less organized compact of mental states 
and conditions, under the discordant power 
of sin, and functioning in the effects of sin, 
which these psychologies dignify, by giving 
to it the status of a mind. In these produc- 
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The equation of this principle, in its original 
manifestation, should be stated thus: "Forces 
which are equal, simultaneous and harmoni- 
ously agreed." When sin entered the physical 
realm, the manifestation of this principle re- 
ceived a new interpretation, and its equation 
came to be stated, as follows: "Forces that 
are equal, simultaneous and contrarily op- 
posed." These equations express precisely 
the difference between the original physical 
state, and that produced by sin. Sin dis- 
organized the whole physical creation, and, 
of course, filled the mental states of man 
with darkness and afflicting limitations. 

Now, the modern psychologies construct a 
wonderful organization for this, so called, 
human mind. First, they give us imagina- 
tion — imagery. Then in the order named 
here, they give us perception, reason, con- 
clusion and concept. These mental faculties 
cannot be set in motion without vibration, 
so that processes of thinking can be reached. 
To this end the centrifugal and centripetal 
force of nature is utilized, and the positive 
and negative functions come into play. This 



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apparently gives us a human mind with an 
almost infinite number of sensibilities, each 
in the duality of the positive and negative 
functions of process. Hence, love is negated 
by the shadow of hate, joy by the shadow 
of sorrow, courage by that of fear, and so on, 
ad infinitum. 

These negating mental shadows are the 
product of sin, and they will fade in the mea- 
sure in which re-creation, or the restoration 
is accomplished. 

Then we find that upon these sensibilities, 
our mental and physical sciences have erected 
the special senses of touch, taste, smell, hear- 
ing and sight. Now, turning to the faculty 
powers of this mental compact, my vision 
instructs me that perception is a reflector, 
and reflects the light of intelligence; reason, 
being the same, reflects the light of wisdom ; 
conclusion, the light of knowledge, and con- 
cept, the light of understanding. On this 
solid foundation, we are to see that we re- 
ceive all our light, or nearly all, mediately, 
not immediately, nor directly. Intelligence, 
Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding are 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 101 

capacities of the universal mind. Perception, 
reason, conclusion and concept are faculties 
of human mentality, and they reflect, some- 
times only very faintly, the light of the capa- 
cities of the one and only, everywhere pres- 
ent mind. 

In our present age a new sense, so to 
speak, is coming into function. It is com- 
monly called intuition. It is the method of 
receiving and appropriating the light of the 
universal mind, immediately, directly. This 
was shown to me in my vision of the uni- 
verse and man, to the extent that I am now 
able to use this intuitive sense with goodly 
measures of success. This new function 
works on the basis of a true value purpose; 
and it comes into use at a time when it is 
needed to supplement the old senses, slowly 
rising out of the effects of sin, in the voli- 
tional work of the restoration. This new 
sense itself is a development of the re-crea- 
tion, a land-mark of its progress. In the 
Edenic state man did not receive the true 
light mediately — by reflection — but immedi- 
ately, directly. In the restoration he will en- 



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joy such a state of purity and perfection as 
to resume this natural method. 

Sin separated man from his rightful mind 
— the universal mind. Through the destruc- 
tion of sin and the completed work of re- 
building the spiritual body, lost to conscious- 
ness, by Edenic disobedience, the free, unob- 
structed use of this omniscient mind will be 
restored. From these observations it is seen 
that, as the grand work of redemption and 
restoration makes progress, new require- 
ments, in the way of new mental faculties, 
rise, and these are supplied from the re- 
sources of the Christ plan of salvation, as 
shown by the now dawning new intuition. 

In the successive steps of this wonderful 
progress, man is being illuminated by the 
true light, until his reality and what he real- 
ly is doing, when engaged in any useful pur- 
suit of industry are dawning upon his con- 
sciousness. For many ages man has engaged 
in ever multiplying industrial callings, with 
only the objective of gaining a supply of 
temporal needs. He looked away from this 
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THE PHYSICAL CREATION 103 

higher bounties. Now, he slowly is begin- 
ning to see that right industry, and right- 
eous physical endeavor constitute the God- 
given instrumentalities for re-building the 
lost spiritual body — for physical, mental, 
moral and spiritual regeneration. 

From these pages the reader can see what 
he really is — in what constitution he is com- 
posed — the stuff of which he is made, and 
what he really is doing when engaged in nor- 
mal industry. These grand results flow from 
the power of illuminating intelligence, from 
the dawning of the true light in human con- 
sciousness. There is a most forceful lesson 
to be learned, in respect of the rising new 
spiritual body of man, from the dawning and 
the coming of any new day. Supposing the 
night to have been densely dark, and the 
traveller to have been out in the cold the 
whole night long, how he heartily welcomes 
the first streaks of the day's dawn! His 
whole life is thrilled, and he is filled with 
joy and gladness. A thousand interesting 
objects of thought are revealed as the dark- 
ness fades, and the light advances. Finally, 



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the full day is realized, with its light and 
warmth, and stirring activities, to be seen 
on every hand. The night is gone ! The day 
has come. 

Now, there is no evolution in this trans- 
formation. The night did not become the 
day. It rather was dissolved, destroyed. 
Thus, the day is revealed. In truth, it ex- 
isted all the while, and was hidden from our 
apprehension by the darkness. It is pre- 
cisely the same with realities which the dark- 
ness of sin hides from our vision — the vision 
of our understanding. When sin has been 
destroyed, they appear. In this they are 
simply uncovered, not created. 

Precisely in this way, when sin has been 
destroyed, and the true light floods the whole 
man or woman, his or her reality, with its 
new spiritual body will be revealed. In this 
great consumation, as in the other just not- 
ed, there is no evolution. There grandly is 
the resurrection of the true understanding; 
and this, in reality, is the restoration, or re- 
creation I have been telling you about. 

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to you what probably is a secret, or solve 
for you what possibly is, as yet, an unsolved 
problem. There is, in truth, no difference 
between the mental, physical and spiritual 
work necessary for becoming, in the under- 
standing of consciousness, what one really 
is, and in that of actually working out, by 
re-creation, as explained in this small effort, 
the same grand result. The work here 
spoken of is parent to the child of the con- 
scious knowledge here referred to. This is 
the only difference there can be. It is agreed 
on all sides that it is impossible for a human 
to think, in belief or faith, or both, emotion- 
ally, or otherwise, into a conscious realiza- 
tion of truth. Mental industry alone is not 
sufficient. Thought must be transformed to 
action. Right thought must be supplement- 
ed by good deeds. Without the performance 
of good deeds one never can become truly 
conscious of the possession of a perfect body. 
One must know things in order to become 
them, or to become conscious that one actu- 
ally possesses them. This knowledge is ap- 
propriated only in the measure that the dark- 



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ness of sin is destroyed by deeds of fond 
obedience. The effects of disobedience can 
be destroyed only by the effects of obedience. 
Truth comes into demonstration, in the reali- 
zation of consciousness, only by obedience; 
and there can be no complete obedience ex- 
cept by actions. Mental states, themselves, 
cannot become effectively obedient, until they 
express themselves in actions — deeds. Hence, 
there are no two routes, after all, in the pil- 
grimage for the attainment of a conscious 
knowledge, or understanding of what we 
really are. 



CHAPTER X 
SIGNIFICANCE OF INDUSTRY 

AND NOW a most important lesson forces 
itself upon consciousness for attention. 
This is the sacred character of human in- 
dustry. I mean normal industry, with the 
hurtful industries eliminated — industry car- 
ried on in the power of a true value purpose. 
The number of callings and pursuits, trades 
and professions, occupations and vocations 
of human industry, even of the useful sort, 
is legion; and yet, no matter which one of 
these a human may be occupied with, he 
really is performing the same grand work 
that another is engaged in, when employed 
in a completely different line of activity. No 
matter what we visibly may be doing, we all 
are engaged in the same great work, all busy 
with the industry of re-building the grand 
spiritual body, reduced to debris and ruins 
by the sin of Eden. This is what we really are 
doing. 

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In addition to this we are, or should be, 
treasuring up accumulations of temporal 
bounties and uses for present, or immediate 
requirements, in the enjoyment of which we 
are the better equipped for the realization 
of life's higher aims. When a man or wo- 
man is compelled to engage in work, or labor, 
on a plan that interferes with this great 
purpose of industry, he or she is a victim of 
terrible slavery; and the person or persons 
responsible for such a system are guilty of 
awful sin. Sin is sin, whether of the trans- 
gressional brand, or otherwise. Transgress- 
ing God's plainly revealed will, in this age 
of light, in this matter of enslaving industry 
— wage earners — is in the nature of the blood 
of perishing man crying from the earth for 
the vengeance of God. This cry is in the 
voice of righteousness, and it will be requit- 
ed, notwithstanding it is the plaintive of 
God's disobedient children. 

Of all the crooked and discordant condi- 
tions of the sin-cursed human state of life, 
there is not one more acute with outrage 
than that which has reduced a majority of 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 109 

the people to dependence upon the cold-heart- 
edness of great industrial systems. This 
form of error and evil has gone on for ages, 
until the living find many of the existing con- 
ditions to be the product of those who long 
since have passed from human sight. These 
conditions, living employers hold themselves 
not accountable for, but even under this false 
cloak, and even while lamenting these afflict- 
ing conditions, these self -excusing employers 
of men and women proceed, in one way or 
another, to take advantage of these condi- 
tions, to perpetuate them, and to augment 
their volume and intensity. Thus, the in- 
dustrial purpose of the Creator (for as we 
have seen, right human industry is instru- 
mentally creative) is opposed, and the sense 
processes of the restoration are delayed. 
The selfish purposes under which this is car- 
ried out enlarge the volumes of sin and af- 
fliction in the world. 

It, therefore, is not difficult to understand, 
or to see the source of the impoverishment 
of probably a majority of the human homes 
of the world, as, also, that of the sufferings 



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of the mothers, infants and children of these 
homes. These conditions are the more re- 
volting, when it is realized that our earth 
contains, of needful riches and bounties, a 
supply far in excess of the requirements of 
the whole human family, even were its nu- 
merical strength quadrupled. 

In 1911, Thomas A Edison, in a forecast 
of our civilization, said: "I believe that all 
England will some day stop at the sound of 
one command, and that the command of a 
workingman. There will be no poverty in the 
world a hundred years from now. There is 
no limit to the cheapness with which things 
can foe made. The world will soon be flooded 
with the cheap products of machinery — not 
the poor products ; the cheap products. Why 
snould we expect poverty to continue. Pov- 
erty was for a world that used only its own 
hands. When men used nothing but their 
hands poverty was most intense. Now that 
men have began to use their brains, poverty 
is decreasing. * * * Think how long the 
world has stood, and then recall that prac- 
tically everything we know, today, that is 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 111 

worth while, we have learned within a hun- 
dred years. And we have only just begun to 
use our brains. What we know is but an atom 
of what there is to know." 

And now, without explanation, for explana- 
tion is not needed, we can see that this small 
effort has reached a point where the pro- 
cesses of the Great Restoration, and the pro- 
gress of human Civilization come together 
and make one ! This is a most thrilling con- 
cept, and the significance of its teachings 
should not be lost. 

Less than a year ago, 1916, L. P. Jacks, 
the great British journalist, wrote that our 
civilization — the civilization of the whole 
world — was without a guide, or controlling 
force. He said that people were amassing 
knowledge and wealth without any consider- 
ation of what they were going to do with 
them— that they were just as liable to use 
them for destroying one another as to em- 
ploy them for their rightful purposes. This 
has been proven true for a long period, and 
the great world war has emphasized this 
fact. 



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Now, we have at hand a controlling force 
— a guide — for human civilization. It is in 
the fact that the objective of this civiliza- 
tion is the restoration of the lost estate of 
mankind, the re-creation of the perfect body, 
which was given to man when he entered the 
Edenic state — the spiritual body which man 
lost by the awful sin of disobedience in the 
Garden. This is the only safe helm for the 
guidance of human civilization — the only 
pilot, so to speak, whose right name is truth. 



CHAPTER XI. 
THE NEW MOVEMENT 

TAKING the next preceding chapter as 
my foundation, I have engaged myself 
in a series of concluding endeavors of a busy 
physical life, constituting what my numer- 
ous friends and supporters are calling the 
"McGahan Movement, ,, the objects and pur- 
poses of which combine, first, into a nation- 
wide, and, later, a world-wide, general co- 
operative enterprise, on new, equitable, 
natural justice lines for founding and con- 
ducting a Great People's Trust, industrially 
educational and economically profitable, to 
the whole human family. 

I call attention to the fact that "every- 
thing which man handles or uses or touches 
comes out of the earth in one form or an- 
other. The earth and all its fullness was 
made for him; but many things of great 
value are still locked up in its bosom and can 
only be obtained by possessing the key, or the 

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right combination of keys, which is pure in- 
telligence. Mind is the God-given key, which 
unlocks all the mysteries pertaining to the 
earth, even as revelation unlocks all the 
mysteries pertaining to the heavens. 

"Therefore, through these great principles 
— intelligence and revelation — all things in 
due time will be made known to man, that 
the fast approaching millennial age may 
dawn in splendor of Him, and the mind of 
man attain its highest development and 
society its grandest achievement." 

I call this new movement the World's 
Products Association, and I call upon the 
millions of men and women in this country, 
who desire to improve their financial, econo- 
mic, educational and ethical conditions, to 
join me in this enterprise, which has for its 
immediate object the grand task of driving 
poverty from our world. Temporal indepen- 
dence is the first goal to be attained, but as 
the earth is full of, and overflowing with, 
riches, this first summit, under our plans, 
and with our wonderful appliances, will prove 
to be easily accomplished. Other objectives, 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 115 

especially our new educational system will 
go along with this primary aim, and thus 
the movement will grow and expand. 

Already several state associations have 
started, and others are developing for auspi- 
cious beginnings. A solid financial and 
mechanical foundation has been provided, 
and is rapidly growing. I cannot burden 
this small volume with promotion literature 
features, but I will not trespass the limits 
of literary propriety, by stating that this 
is the most unique movement probably ever 
started in this or any other country. It is 
born out of due time, and aims at the estab- 
lishment of a new and better industrial 
economy, and in many respects of human 
economy generally. 

It aims for the realization of industrial, 
economic and social justice, and seeks to pre- 
vent unduly selfish interests from possessing, 
or appropriating things, or uses, which right- 
fully belong to others, or other interests. It 
opens and seeks to prepare a highway be- 
fore the people for reaching, realizing and 
enjoying peace, prosperity, health and har- 



116 WONDERFUL PURPOSE OF 

mony. It takes an advanced place for up- 
lifting the home, motherhood, infancy and 
childhood. 

In short it stands for a distinctively Chris- 
tian Civilization, and the inauguration of 
co-operation and brotherhood, on a practical 
basis of living to learn and learning to live. 
Its government is vested in a Parent Body, 
with State Branch Associations, each self- 
governing, in all interests — essential to har- 
mony. It issues profit-sharing life member- 
ship certificates, carries on technical schools 
of mechanics, metallurgy, and popular 
schools of economics, a n d co-operative 
science. 

As indicated on previous pages, I have 
qualified for undertaking this great move- 
ment, as its founder and leader, not in the 
schools of brokerdom, or trade scheming, but 
by holding my ear and my heart close to 
Mother Earth, until I have mastered her 
language, and communed with her metallic 
and atmospheric riches, and become trained 
in the secrets beneath her loving bosom, 
from whence our needful supplies so abun- 
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THE PHYSICAL CREATION 117 

My smelting, refining and by-products 
saving devices, secured by letters patent 
from the government of the United States, 
now in complete demonstration, are suffi- 
ciently effective to rescue from the earth 
and the heavens (atmosphere), sufficient 
wealth to pay all the public debts of the 
world, and provide each man, woman and 
child on our planet, with enough to live in 
plenty and happiness throughout life; all 
this in a reasonable period of time. The 
movement issues no stock, and provides no 
possibility for one, or a few of its members, 
to realize gains in undue, or unjust advan- 
tage over another, or others. Each member 
has one vote and no more. It is a true demo- 
cracy, on business principles, and has no part 
with ism or cult. I seek your helping hand 
in the cause of God and humanity. 



AS A BEACON LIGHT 

I wish you to think of this movement as 
a beacon light, not as a light warning of 



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danger, but as a signal of approaching deliv- 
erance in time of storm and distress. Our 
world is filled with darkness and storm. 
Distress prevails almost everywhere. This 
movement is as a signal upon an eminence 
to guide the toiling pilgrim in his course 
towards a more perfect day. It may guide 
him as the lighthouse guides the anxious 
mariner, namely, from its actual locations, 
and by its reflections from the sky. It may 
guide him by its flashing "bulls-eyes," which 
go forth in messages to different parts of 
the country and the world, telling of the 
great plans we have made for dissolving the 
darkness of poverty, and uncovering, for hu- 
man appropriation, the light of peace, pros- 
perity and happiness. 

We raise the educational banner of tem- 
poral plenty and moral peace, beside the flag 
of our country, and seek to resolve the sig- 
nificance of the latter, to a great force im- 
pressing the value of industry, skill, ethics 
and spirituality. We do not bring forward 
untried, legal measures or policies of social- 
ization, in disturbing efforts to enforce their 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 119 

adoption, but hold out a steady, strong guid- 
ing light, inviting the people everywhere to 
apply their skill and energies to a work of 
educational industry, as the only peaceful, 
harmless weapon for the destruction of 
poverty and want in our world. 

We point to Mother Earth, the only store- 
house of temporal riches available to us, as 
containing enough and to spare, for each 
and for all and for evermore, as the one great 
beacon light for the inspiration and guid- 
ance of our endeavors to realize a temporal 
competency. When I stood in the spirit be- 
fore the great instructor of the true light, 
who opened my vision to behold the things 
to which I refer in this volume, he charged 
me to open this wonderful storehouse to 
the people; and he gave me the keys 
for that purpose, instructing me in a plan 
for appropriating and equitably distribut- 
ing these needful bounties. Hence, I now 
refer to the Earth and to this new 
movement, as constituting a great world 
beacon light, which long ago should have 
more zealoulsy attracted and enlisted the 



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skill and efforts of the people in the work 
of the restoration. 

According to the terms of the revelation 
committed to me, I find no license, or author- 
ity for tearing down and destroying existing 
industrial, or economic systems, except as 
they are, by evolutionary transformation, 
resolved to new and more efficient agencies. 
While the work of reconstruction, or re-cre- 
ation involves the casting away of the use- 
less, burdensome, obsolete functions of time 
honored foundations and superstructures, it 
should be achieved by harmonious growths 
and developments. In the vision of truth 
vouchsafed to me, I was shown, or taught of 
these methods, in respect of the task of 
transforming our present faulty industrial 
economy. Hence, this movement is a beacon 
light not only pointing, or directing to the 
goal of better living, but instructing travel- 
lers along this course how to go, in order to 
reach the haven of their betterment in 
safety. 

It often is more profitable to build a new 
institution for temporal, industrial gain, 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 121 

when advanced scientific appliances are to be 
put into use, than to attempt to demolish, or 
reconstruct an old one, for the same object. 
Our new movement seeks to perform precise- 
ly this kind of work. While we are building 
new industries on new plans, for new and 
higher purposes, implicating new and more 
scientific processes, we shall avoid, by every 
possible method, friction of any sort with 
older plants, or industries. Whatever rises in 
incidence are the effects of true progress; 
and whatever in these partakes of the nature 
of friction is used to polish the reflector, 
without which a beacon light would be want- 
ing for concentration, or a guiding force. 



CHANGES AND NEW REQUIREMENTS 

It has been well said that the significance 
of the Great World Conflict, now desolating 
the greater part of the civilized earth, which 
is being overruled for the coming betterment 
of humanity combines into a series of the 
most important lessons ever made available 
to mankind. Chief among these is the fact 
that the old, the obsolete and the hurtful in 



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human economy must pass to give place to 
the new, the more advanced and the benefi- 
cient. 

It is the duty of the people, generally, to 
engage in careful study of the bent, or ef- 
fects of this world-wide reign of error and 
evil, with a view to profiting by these les- 
sons, in a work of preparation to meet the 
new requirements which now are incoming 
in the form of a demand for a new and bet- 
ter order. It may be said short, that all the 
phases of the great conflict between right 
and wrong, which have been "conceived in 
sin and brought forth in iniquity," now bear- 
ing so heavily upon mankind, constitute an 
awful harvest of the reckless and selfish 
sowing of the people themselves; but this 
harvest is soon to become resolved to a clear- 
er human sky, and a more expanded light 
shed by experience. Therefore, the light 
rising from this awful experience already is 
at work as a world force for elevating the 
people of this and other nations, intellectu- 
ally and ethically, to a higher plane, over- 
looking and inviting to a better system of 



THE PHYSICAL CREATION 123 

human living, with the overflowing prosper- 
ity of peace. 

There is an important philosophical aspect 
in which these lessons should be viewed. In 
this connection I approvingly quote from the 
writings of one of my loyal and devoted fol- 
lowers, in order that we may reach a clear 
understanding of the many and important 
changes which the war, or this whole series 
of conflicts is bringing to our doors, freight- 
ed with many new requirements. Concern- 
ing these new requirements, responsibilities 
and duties, to which great changes now are 
giving forceful existence, this writer says: 
"We should focus mental vision, for a mo- 
ment, upon the nature of human progress. 
The most real fact connected with our civili- 
zation is change. Not anything in the phys- 
ical or human state of life is fixed, or change- 
less. Immovability, or the changeless world 
is the expressor of this realm, in which 
we live and constitute a small but im- 
portant part, while the physical and the hu- 
man, ever growing, ever developing, consti- 
tute the expression — the expressed image — 



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of the changeless life, themselves in con- 
tinuous change. These facts inspire one to 
declare that the change of development, 
growth, progress and achievement is the 
one and only external reality. 

"One phase of this continuous change is 
seen and felt in the ever flowing, ever rising 
flood of new human requirements. These 
are in the natural fruitage of progress and 
achievement. These changes and ever dawn- 
ing new requirements are born of the storms 
and conflicts of the human state — the victor- 
ious struggles of the becoming by overcom- 
ing error, or selfishness — conflicts which dis- 
solve and dissipate the heavy clouds that 
gather in the human sky, into great floods of 
precipitation, thus enabling us to see, in the 
expanding light of our own achievements, a 
little more clearly, from one summit to an- 
other, what we really are and what we really 
are doing. 

"These new needs, or new conditions, a 
host of which now are springing into existence 
to challenge human genius to the rightful 
solution of their problems, call for a new 



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growth and development of mental capacities 
— for a stronger manifestation of our minds. 
We cannot perform the new work to which 
our progress is calling us in our old harness 
— by our old methods. Each summit of at- 
tainment calls for stronger mental powers 
and more rigorous actions. In the measure 
that we respond to these demands, discord, 
conflict and affliction are dissolved." 

What are some of these new requirements 
— new conditions — that the close of the first 
great phases of the world conflict already is 
presenting, and, later, will even more im- 
peratively knock at our doors? In the first 
place we, as a nation, must, revise and im- 
prove our internal industrial systems. This 
is coming to be the need of employers as 
much as it is the demand of the workers. 
The former are beginning to realize a keen 
appreciation of this. The practical conces- 
sion of an eight-hour work-day, by the pow- 
ers in control of the great transportation 
industry of the United States was granted 
in demonstration of the fact that, "big busi- 
ness," to use a widely admitted term, is 



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rapidly awakening to the necessity of a new 
and better, or a more harmonious, system of 
industry in this nation. This is one of the 
most hopeful signs of our time. It comes 
into view in response to the very first call of 
the new "McGahan Movement" which I have 
launched as the result of years of work and 
study, with a view to overthrowing poverty 
and its effects, in our world. 

I should call attention, in this place, to 
the fact that the ending of the war, as to 
some of its terrible phases, will not provide 
the world, or any large part of it, with in- 
dustrial peace. Hence, it will not be a ter- 
mination of the world conflict. As a large 
section of the press has said, it rather will 
be a shifting of its phases. And I quote this, 
approvingly: "In the industrial strife that 
must follow, we shall have the advent of a 
new datum for, or a new departure in, our 
civilization. This will give birth to a new 
order of economy. This new order will rise 
in measures of industrial peace. Peace in the 
human state of life is industrial peace. It 
cannot be other than this." 



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In the storms that yet may cloud the 
human sky, incident to the changes that will 
overtake our young but mighty nation, the 
people of the United States will be compelled 
to appeal to educational agencies as never 
before. It is well said by the writer last 
quoted: "We should not forget that the 
founders of our government and institutions 
of civilization adjusted their aims toward the 
realization of a new democracy, and placed 
their hopes for this achievement in the util- 
ity of popular education. 

"To this end a free public school system 
was established; and, to defray the cost of 
this vast undertaking, not only direct taxa- 
tion was resorted to, but the great public 
domain of the national government was 
drawn upon for the purpose. Thus far, this 
constructive work of the patriotic pioneers 
of our country was wrought in wisdom. 
Wonderful public school systems soon devel- 
oped to match phenomenal growth in popula- 
tion, so that at the beginning of the twentieth 
century the United States could boast public 
school systems with an enrollment of nearly 



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18,000,000 pupils, and an average daily at- 
tendance of 12,827,307." 

These observations recall to mind what 
has been said in earlier chapters of this small 
volume, concerning the wonderful way in 
which well ordered industry functions as 
the basic principle of educational envelop- 
ment; and they are given here to " ipress 
the importance of the incoming new require- 
ment of schools of educational industry, 
which so appropriately characterize this new 
McGahan movement, as to its educational 
features. It is in a nation-wide co-operation 
with this new enterprise, or series of under- 
takings, all of an industrial nature, and an 
educational bent, that our people, especially 
those of the wage, or dependent class will 
become financially and intellectually qualified 
to meet all the new requirements of this new 
age. Thus our movement touches, for its 
betterment, every human interest. 



CHAPTER XII. 
WORLD CLIMAX OF EVIL 

AND NOW in conclusion of this little vol- 
ume, reference is made to the Great 
World War as the climax of evil in human 
history. Concerning this there is much more 
demand for the shedding of light on what is 
to follow the awful conflict, than for any 
accounting of its desolating fury. The world 
already is only too familiar with the latter. 
It may be said, however, that any close ob- 
server of human events, current or historical, 
viewing conditions from the vantage ground 
of even half a century ago, could easily have 
seen that the forces of sin in our world had 
generated very close to the exploding point. 
The evil purposes of humans, launched into 
action from the personal standpoint, had 
socialized, through community, state and na- 
tional correlations, until, attaining the status 
of great world forces, they could not escape 

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the penalty of self-destruction. Sin had run 
one of its great cycles of discord, and its 
armies were mustered for a culminating 
drive against the apparently tottering walls 
of righteousness. Satan and his evil spirit- 
hosts had filled the great social heart of 
humanity with awful selfishness, until the 
strong were devouring the weak in the open, 
and until the wrongfully made dependent 
were working out a miserable existence in a 
new type of servitude. A wicked commer- 
cialism had invaded and set up a throne of 
blind aggrandizement in almost every human 
heart, and in every phase of human civiliza- 
tion. Men and women were devouring each 
other in the market places, in social func- 
tions, and even in sacred courts. Nation 
was conspiring against nation, power against 
power, until diplomacy was garmented in the 
livery of Satan. Religion and self-righteous- 
ness had become "as sounding brass and a 
tinkling cymbal." Hypocrisy had adorned 
its slimy form in such finery, and with such 
decorations of learning and wealth, that its 
glitter readily passed for real gold. 



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Then the explosion came, and nation 
fought against nation, slaying millions. Des- 
olation spread its awful mantle of suffering 
and despair over the world. Darkness filled 
the human heavens, human mental states 
became spell-bound, or "holden," and a sense 
of indifference possessed the greater part of 
humanity. The great and strong, in learn- 
ing and wealth, mentally alternating between 
fear and greed, sought to renew their 
strength by preying upon the remaining sub- 
stance of the poor, while God's poor, them- 
selves, placing an ear close to Mother Earth, 
caught the whisper that this great war was 
in the actuality of error and evil destroying 
themselves, and that when its fury had 
passed, the human sky would clear of its 
darkness, and a new era, with its new les- 
sons in human economy, would come to the 
world to bless mankind. 

But the end is not yet. In the old world, 
evil forces, in a large measure, before the 
middle of 1917, had so far destroyed them- 
selves as to present signs of dissolution, 
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of the earth-girdling march of the awful con- 
flict already had developed new phases. 
America began reaping what it had sown, in 
1916, and before, and as these lines are 
penned, the people of the United States are 
suffering from a woeful harvest. This seed- 
ing, or sowing consisted, and still consists, 
in the murderous intrigue to be found as the 
moving cause of the abnormally high cost 
of living, from which our homes, with mil- 
lions of mothers, infants and children are 
suffering ; and in the other not less revolting 
sin of supplying the belligerent nations of 
Europe with the means of continuing the 
war beyond their own resources, by which 
death, sorrow and desolation were spread as 
a black mantle over the homes of those 
countries. 

This sowing for the whirlwind harvest, 
also, includes the many injustices of our na- 
tional industrial economy, which have been 
continued for more than half a century, in 
this country, without a shadow of justifica- 
tion. It also includes the careless, or wicked 
neglect of our governmental authorities, in 



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allowing a vast espionage system to be devel- 
oped in America, at the instance of a foreign 
nation, or nations, entertaining the insane 
idea, or delusion, of being able, ultimately, 
to conquer the whole world. It also includes, 
on the part of the same authorities, the aw- 
ful inefficiency, which is responsible for the 
growth and development, in this country, of 
an industrial system, in foolish imitation of 
European plans, which seek to enrich the 
rich, and to further impoverish the poor and 
dependent. 

Instead of this course, our ruling elements 
should have improved the God-given oppor- 
tunity of building up a great national sys- 
tem of educational industry, such as this 
little volume recommends. They miserably 
failed to do this, and as a result, we have 
only to look at the conduct of our people, as 
recently described by Beatrice Fairfax, in the 
following terms: "A certain unfortunate 
restlessness seems to have taken possession 
of most of us today. We rush about from 
pleasure to pleasure and from task to task 
as feverishly as if Satan were driving — and, 



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perhaps, he is. Our restlessness, our cease- 
less yearning for something new, our excited 
craving for entertainment and pleasure has 
brought us to a pass where we are morbid 
and neurotic, and none too stable morally." 

In truth, the people of the United States 
are not to look towards Germany, or any 
other foreign country, to behold their great- 
est danger, but rather are they to open 
vision to internal conditions — to the states 
of their own hearts and minds, if you please. 
The sins of the people of the United States 
have a greater reflex power than those of the 
people of most other countries. Why is this 
true, and what is this "reflex power ?" Let 
me explain, briefly. The intelligence — moral 
intelligence — of our people is keener. Then, 
as to this "reflex power," the actions ex- 
pressed by the sin-diseased mental states of 
these people, reflect back on these states, to 
inflame and intensify their conditions, as 
would not be the case with less sensitive 
mental conditions. Hence, the greater 
danger. 



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Therefore, when I declare to you that the 
people of the United States, unless they 
quickly turn from the class of transgres- 
sions, by commission and omission, enu- 
merated in this chapter, they will be over- 
taken by awfully destructive floods of in- 
dustrial conflicts, suicides, divorces, insanity, 
rioting, social unrest, and a reign of terror, 
such as no civilized people of the earth ever 
have suffered from, or endured. These are 
strong terms, but my vision commands me 
thus to declare. It is recorded in the Bible 
that God said to one of his servants, "Arise, 
go to Ninevah, that great city, and cry 
against it ; for their wickedness is come up 
before me." 

Now, dear readers, what difference is 
there between social licentiousness, on the 
one hand, and industrial, or commercial de- 
pravity, on the other? Does the last not 
lead to the first, in our age? My country- 
men, I warn you, one and all. The judgment 
day is coming! The preparedness most 
needed in this hour of danger— in this day 
of real danger— by this already great nation, 



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consists not so much in warships and armies, 
not so much in shot and shell, as in Repent- 
ance — in a quick turning away from indus- 
trial, commercial, political Sin. 

And in these, for the present, final words 
to you, I declare — fearlessly proclaim — that 
unless our people seek this God-provided and 
Bible-authorized preparedness, without delay, 
the greater part of this people — this country 
— will be plunged into such a desolating 
series of conflicts as the world has not yet 
experienced. 

We are entering upon a new age. Be ye 
prepared for it, lest ye be destroyed. 



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